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Machine Learning with R Cookbook

By : Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
Book Image

Machine Learning with R Cookbook

By: Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)

Overview of this book

<p>The R language is a powerful open source functional programming language. At its core, R is a statistical programming language that provides impressive tools to analyze data and create high-level graphics.</p> <p>This book covers the basics of R by setting up a user-friendly programming environment and performing data ETL in R. Data exploration examples are provided that demonstrate how powerful data visualization and machine learning is in discovering hidden relationships. You will then dive into important machine learning topics, including data classification, regression, clustering, association rule mining, and dimension reduction.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Machine Learning with R Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Resources for R and Machine Learning
Dataset – Survival of Passengers on the Titanic
Index

Creating transactions with temporal information


In addition to mining interesting associations within the transaction database, we can mine interesting sequential patterns using transactions with temporal information. In the following recipe, we demonstrate how to create transactions with temporal information.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will generate transactions with temporal information. We can use the generated transactions as the input source for frequent sequential pattern mining.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to create transactions with temporal information:

  1. First, you need to install and load the package arulesSequences:

    > install.packages("arulesSequences")
    > library(arulesSequences)
    
  2. You can first create a list with purchasing records:

    > tmp_data=list(c("A"),
    +                c("A","B","C"),
    +                c("A","C"),
    +                c("D"),
    +                c("C","F"),
    +                c("A","D"),
    +                c("C"),
    +                c("B","C"),
    ...