The arules R-package ecosystem: analyzing interesting patterns from large transaction data sets. (English) Zbl 1280.68011
Summary: This paper describes the ecosystem of R add-on packages developed around the infrastructure provided by the package arules. The packages provide comprehensive functionality for analyzing interesting patterns including frequent itemsets, association rules, frequent sequences and for building applications like associative classification. After discussing the ecosystem’s design we illustrate the ease of mining and visualizing rules with a short example.
MSC:
68-04 | Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to computer science |
62-04 | Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics |
68T05 | Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence |