[R] Help with Help

[Uwe Ligges]

On 02.02.2011 21:15, John Filben wrote:
> I have recently been reading several books on data mining which contain a
> few data sets.  The books offer some perspective on model choices, tuning
> decisions, result interpretation.  Are there any good resources that can walk me
> through the thought process of an experienced data miner with the datasets that
> are included for packages such as "rpart"&  "kmeans".

"kmeans" is not a package - at least not on CRAN. I guess you are 
talking about a kmeans function in anotehr package.

I think you should read two kinds of books: 1. books about the 
methodology and 2. book about using R. If you understood both, it is not 
too hard to put the two things together.

There is a web page for R related book at http://www.r-project.org/


> I currently use MS Access VBA for a bulk of my data manipulation and then use R
> Commander and Rattle for my statistical analysis.  Thank you.

Many of us will certainly think that neither MS Access VBA nor the R 
Commander (the latter is really nice for teaching certain kinds of 
non-statistics students) will be used by an experienced data miner.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


>
> Regards,
> John
>   John Filben
> Cell Phone - 773.401.2822
> Email - johnfilben at yahoo.com
>
>
>
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.