I’ve used R for many use cases and Text Mining is one of those. Below is a small snippet to get you started with R and Text Mining. require(fortunes) require(tm) sentences [Read more...]

I was recently asked by a R user about how one could extract the “rule” in a classification/regression tree. The requirement was to obtain the path traced from the root node to the leaf nodes and obtain all the paths or “rules” path.rpart() function in the mvpart package ... [Read more...]

After writing the last post on using sendEmail to send email from R I decided to create a simple GUI to enable this functionality. A snapshot image of the GUI is shown above. To use this GUI, you will need to install the following packages in R: gWidgets gWidgetsRGtk2 Windows ... [Read more...]

Like a lot of other R users I’ve felt the need for sending email from R. I haven’t surveyed CRAN for such a package but looked for the possibility of sending command line email in Windows. Found a nice application called sendEmail that can be found here Below ... [Read more...]

When looking for functions whose exact name is unknown # Functions related to “shrinkage” methods help.search(“shrinkage”) Package sos does a great job in finding functions install.packages(“sos”) library(sos) shrinkageResults [Read more...]

Reading data into R when dealing with column types and values that need to be considered as NA Below are code snippets to introduce a few arguments of the read.csv function in R # Create sample data strVals [Read more...]

Setting up AWS Cluster I wanted to setup an AWS cluster to take a shot at a Kaggle contest – DunnHumby Challenge http://www.kaggle.com/c/dunnhumbychallenge For this, I found StarCluster to be of great help. It allows you to set-up AWS nodes in a few lines of code ... [Read more...]