CAS RPM: Installing & running Rattle in RStudio
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At the Ratemaking and Product Management (RPM) seminar of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) in San Diego last month, Linda Brobeck, Peggy Brinkmann, and yours truly gave a concurrent session on a machine learning technique called decision tree analysis. See the DSPA-2 session — and other sessions — at this link. Technical issues precluded showing the video of installing and running Rattle within RStudio. Thus this post.
As Peggy notes, installing and running Rattle takes only three “commands” in R:
rattle()
Although not necessary, the “Suggests” option above can avoid Rattle’s annoying requests for more packages as you click through its GUI; the downside is the time to download and install about 900 packages. Below (“Read more >>”) is a link to a video of me running through the three lines above:
download/install Rattle
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