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Machine Learning tools in R (January 24, 2006). Category: Data mining

There are a variety of different models that perform supervised learning or classification problems

  • Diagonal Linear Discriminant Analysis (DLDA)
  • Neural Networks (NN)
  • Support Vector Machines (SVM)
  • k Nearest Neighbors (kNN)
  • Bagging
  • Boosting

R has a library, MLInterfaces, that puts a uniform interface in front of the input and output from all of these procedures. I could not load the MLInterfaces library directly, but could download and  then install the package from

By the way, I am working with a wonderful book now,

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor. Gentleman R, Huber W, Carey VJ, Irizarry RA, Dudoit S (2005) New York, New York: Springer. ISBN: 0387251464. [BookFinder4U link]

that offers a lot of valuable advice on how to use the many advanced features in R and Bioconductor.

This webpage was written by Steve Simon and was last modified on 07/08/2008.