Course Content
Data mining using Statistical packages
A few concepts before starting
- How R works
- Creating, listing and deleting the objects in memory
- The on-line help
Data with R
- Objects
- Reading data in a_le
- Saving data
- Generating data
- Regular sequences
- Random sequences
- Manipulating objects
- Creating objects
- Converting objects
- Operators
- Accessing the values of an object: the indexing system
- Accessing the values of an object with names
- The data editor
- Arithmetic and simple functions
- Matrix computation
Graphics with R
- Managing graphics
- Opening several graphical devices
- Partitioning a graphic
- Low-level plotting commands
- Graphical parameters
- A practical example
- The grid and lattice packages
Statistical analyses with R
- A simple example of analysis of variance
- Formulae
- Generic functions
- GLM
- E1071
- KSVM
- KNN
- Dimensionality reduction
Programming with R in practice
- Loops and vectorization
- Writing a program in R
- Writing your own functions
