Book Contents

• Cover
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Predicting Algae Blooms
• Chapter 3: Predicting Stock Market Returns
• Chapter 4: Detecting Fraudulent Transactions
• Chapter 5: Classifying Microarray Samples
• Bibliography
• Index
• Index of Data Mining Topics
• Index of R Functions

Chapter 1 - Introduction

• 1.1 How to Read this Book?
• 1.2 A Short Introduction to R
• 1.2.1 Starting with R
• 1.2.2 R objects
• 1.2.3 Vectors
• 1.2.4 Vectorization
• 1.2.5 Factors
• 1.2.6 Generating sequences
• 1.2.7 Sub-setting
• 1.2.8 Matrices and arrays
• 1.2.9 Lists
• 1.2.10 Data frames
• 1.2.11 Creating new functions
• 1.2.12 Objects, classes and methods
• 1.2.13 Managing your sessions
• 1.3 A Short Introduction to MySQL