R Reference Card for Data Mining

Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com, January 8, 2015

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- The package names are in parentheses.
- Recommended packages and functions are shown in bold.
- Click a package in this PDF file to find it on CRAN.

Association Rules and Sequential Patterns

Functions
apriori() mine associations with APRIORI algorithm a level-wise,
breadth-first algorithm which counts transactions to find frequent itemsets (arules)
eclat() mine frequent itemsets with the Eclat algorithm, which employs
equivalence classes, depth-first search and set intersection instead of
counting (arules)
cspade() mine frequent sequential patterns with the cSPADE algorithm (arulesSequences)
seqefsub() search for frequent subsequences (TraMineR)

Packages
arules mine frequent itemsets, maximal frequent itemsets, closed frequent itemsets and association rules. It includes two algorithms, Apriori and Eclat.
arulesViz visualizing association rules
arulesSequences add-on for arules to handle and mine frequent sequences
TraMineR mining, describing and visualizing sequences of states or events

Classification & Prediction

Performance Evaluation
performance() provide various measures for evaluating performance of prediction and classification models (ROCR)
PRcurve() precision-recall curves (DMwR)
CRchart() cumulative recall charts (DMwR)
roc() build a ROC curve (pROC)
auc() compute the area under the ROC curve (pROC)
ROC() draw a ROC curve (DiagnosisMed)

Packages
party recursive partitioning
rpart recursive partitioning and regression trees
randomForest classification and regression based on a forest of trees using random inputs
ROCR visualize the performance of scoring classifiers
caret classification and regression models
r1071 functions for latent class analysis, short time Fourier transform, fuzzy
clustering, support vector machines, shortest path computation, bagged clustering, naive Bayes classifier, . . .
rpartOrdinal ordinal classification trees, deriving a classification tree when the
response to be predicted is ordinal
rpart.plot plots rpart models
pROC display and analyze ROC curves
nnet feed-forward neural networks and multinomial log-linear models
RSNNS neural networks in R using the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator
(SNNS)
neuralnet training of neural networks using backpropagation, resilient backpropagation with or without weight backtracking

Regression

Decision Trees

Functions

ctree() conditional inference trees, recursive partitioning for continuous, censored, ordered, nominal and multivariate response variables in a conditional inference framework (party)
rpart() recursive partitioning and regression trees (rpart)
mob() model-based recursive partitioning, yielding a tree with fitted models associated with each terminal node (party)

lm() linear regression

glm() generalized linear regression
gbm() generalized boosted regression models (gbm)
predict() predict with models
residuals() residuals, the difference between observed values and fitted values
nls() non-linear regression
gls() fit a linear model using generalized least squares (nlme)
gnls() fit a nonlinear model using generalized least squares (nlme)

Random Forest
cforest() random forest and bagging ensemble (party)
randomForest() random forest (randomForest)
importance() variable importance (randomForest)
varimp() variable importance (party)

Neural Networks
nnet() fit single-hidden-layer neural network (nnet)
mlp(), dlvq(), rbf(), rbfDDA(), elman(), jordan(), som(),
art1(), art2(), artmap(), assoz()
various types of neural networks (RSNNS)
neuralnet training of neural networks (neuralnet)

Support Vector Machine (SVM)

svm() train a support vector machine for regression, classification or densityestimation (e1071)
ksvm() support vector machines (kernlab)

Bayes Classifiers
naiveBayes() naive Bayes classifier (e1071)

Packages
nlme linear and nonlinear mixed effects models
gbm generalized boosted regression models

Clustering

kmeansCBI() interface function for kmeans (fpc)

cluster.optimal() search for the optimal k-clustering of the dataset
(bayesclust)
clara() Clustering Large Applications (cluster)
fanny(x,k,...) compute a fuzzy clustering of the data into k clusters (cluster)
kcca() k-centroids clustering (flexclust)
ccfkms() clustering with Conjugate Convex Functions (cba)
apcluster() affinity propagation clustering for a given similarity matrix (apcluster)
apclusterK() affinity propagation clustering to get K clusters (apcluster)
cclust() Convex Clustering, incl. k-means and two other clustering algorithms
(cclust)
KMeansSparseCluster() sparse k-means clustering (sparcl)
tclust(x,k,alpha,...) trimmed k-means with which a proportion alpha of
observations may be trimmed (tclust)

Hierarchical Clustering
a hierarchical decomposition of data in either bottom-up (agglomerative) or topdown (divisive) way
hclust() hierarchical cluster analysis on a set of dissimilarities
birch() the BIRCH algorithm that clusters very large data with a CF-tree (birch)
pvclust() hierarchical clustering with p-values via multi-scale bootstrap resampling (pvclust)
agnes() agglomerative hierarchical clustering (cluster)
diana() divisive hierarchical clustering (cluster)
mona() divisive hierarchical clustering of a dataset with binary variables only
(cluster)
rockCluster() cluster a data matrix using the Rock algorithm (cba)
proximus() cluster the rows of a logical matrix using the Proximus algorithm
(cba)
isopam() Isopam clustering algorithm (isopam)
flashClust() optimal hierarchical clustering (flashClust)
fastcluster() fast hierarchical clustering (fastcluster)
cutreeDynamic(), cutreeHybrid() detection of clusters in hierarchical clustering dendrograms (dynamicTreeCut)
HierarchicalSparseCluster() hierarchical sparse clustering (sparcl)

Model based Clustering

Mclust() model-based clustering (mclust)
HDDC() a model-based method for high dimensional data clustering (HDclassif )
fixmahal() Mahalanobis Fixed Point Clustering (fpc)
fixreg() Regression Fixed Point Clustering (fpc)
mergenormals() clustering by merging Gaussian mixture components (fpc)

Density based Clustering

Partitioning based Clustering

partition the data into k groups first and then try to improve the quality of clustering by moving objects from one group to another
kmeans() perform k-means clustering on a data matrix
kmeansruns() call kmeans for the k-means clustering method and includes
estimation of the number of clusters and finding an optimal solution from
several starting points (fpc)
pam() the Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM) clustering method (cluster)
pamk() the Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM) clustering method with estimation of number of clusters (fpc)

generate clusters by connecting dense regions

dbscan(data,eps,MinPts,...) generate a density based clustering of
arbitrary shapes, with neighborhood radius set as eps and density threshold as MinPts (fpc)
pdfCluster() clustering via kernel density estimation (pdfCluster)

Other Clustering Techniques

mixer() random graph clustering (mixer)
nncluster() fast clustering with restarted minimum spanning tree (nnclust)
orclus() ORCLUS subspace clustering (orclus)

Plotting Clustering Solutions

Packages

Frequent Terms and Association

plotcluster() visualisation of a clustering or grouping in data (fpc)

bannerplot() a horizontal barplot visualizing a hierarchical clustering (cluster)

Rlof a parallel implementation of the LOF algorithm

extremevalues detect extreme values in one-dimensional data
mvoutlier multivariate outlier detection based on robust methods
outliers some tests commonly used for identifying outliers

findAssocs() find associations in a term-document matrix (tm)

findFreqTerms() find frequent terms in a term-document matrix (tm)
termFreq() generate a term frequency vector from a text document (tm)

Cluster Validation
silhouette() compute or extract silhouette information (cluster)
cluster.stats() compute several cluster validity statistics from a clustering
and a dissimilarity matrix (fpc)
clValid() calculate validation measures for a given set of clustering algorithms
and number of clusters (clValid)
clustIndex() calculate the values of several clustering indexes, which can be
independently used to determine the number of clusters existing in a data
set (cclust)
NbClust() provide 30 indices for cluster validation and determining the number
of clusters (NbClust)

Packages
cluster cluster analysis
fpc various methods for clustering and cluster validation
mclust model-based clustering and normal mixture modeling
birch clustering very large datasets using the BIRCH algorithm
pvclust hierarchical clustering with p-values
apcluster Affinity Propagation Clustering
cclust Convex Clustering methods, including k-means algorithm, On-line Update algorithm and Neural Gas algorithm and calculation of indexes for finding
the number of clusters in a data set
cba Clustering for Business Analytics, including clustering techniques such as
Proximus and Rock
bclust Bayesian clustering using spike-and-slab hierarchical model, suitable for
clustering high-dimensional data
biclust algorithms to find bi-clusters in two-dimensional data
clue cluster ensembles
clues clustering method based on local shrinking
clValid validation of clustering results
clv cluster validation techniques, contains popular internal and external cluster
validation methods for outputs produced by package cluster
bayesclust tests/searches for significant clusters in genetic data
clustsig significant cluster analysis, tests to see which (if any) clusters are statistically different
clusterSim search for optimal clustering procedure for a data set
clusterGeneration random cluster generation
gcExplorer graphical cluster explorer
hybridHclust hybrid hierarchical clustering via mutual clusters
Modalclust hierarchical modal Clustering
iCluster integrative clustering of multiple genomic data types
EMCC evolutionary Monte Carlo (EMC) methods for clustering
rEMM extensible Markov Model (EMM) for data stream clustering

Outlier Detection
Functions
boxplot.stats()$out list data points lying beyond the extremes of the
whiskers
lofactor() calculate local outlier factors using the LOF algorithm (DMwR
or dprep)
lof() a parallel implementation of the LOF algorithm (Rlof )

Time Series Analysis

Construction & Plot
ts() create time-series objects
plot.ts() plot time-series objects
smoothts() time series smoothing (ast )
sfilter() remove seasonal fluctuation using moving average (ast )

Decomposition
decomp() time series decomposition by square-root filter (timsac)
decompose() classical seasonal decomposition by moving averages
stl() seasonal decomposition of time series by loess
tsr() time series decomposition (ast)
ardec() time series autoregressive decomposition (ArDec)

Forecasting
arima() fit an ARIMA model to a univariate time series
predict.Arima() forecast from models fitted by arima
auto.arima() fit best ARIMA model to univariate time series (forecast)
forecast.stl(), forecast.ets(), forecast.Arima()
forecast time series using stl, ets and arima models (forecast)

Correlation and Covariance

acf() autocovariance or autocorrelation of a time series
ccf() cross-correlation or cross-covariance of two univariate series

Packages
forecast displaying and analysing univariate time series forecasts
TSclust time series clustering utilities
dtw Dynamic Time Warping (DTW)
timsac time series analysis and control program
ast time series analysis
ArDec time series autoregressive-based decomposition
dse tools for multivariate, linear, time-invariant, time series models

Text Mining

Topic Modelling
LDA() fit a LDA (latent Dirichlet allocation) model (topicmodels)
CTM() fit a CTM (correlated topics model) model (topicmodels)
terms() extract the most likely terms for each topic (topicmodels)
topics() extract the most likely topics for each document (topicmodels)

Sentiment Analysis
polarity() polarity score (sentiment analysis) (qdap)

Text Categorization
textcat() n-gram based text categorization (textcat)

Text Visualizatoin
wordcloud() plot a word cloud (wordcloud)
comparison.cloud() plot a cloud comparing the frequencies of words
across documents (wordcloud)
commonality.cloud() plot a cloud of words shared across documents
(wordcloud)

Packages
tm a framework for text mining applications
topicmodels fit topic models with LDA and CTM
wordcloud various word clouds
lda fit topic models with LDA
wordnet an interface to the WordNet
RTextTools automatic text classification via supervised learning
qdap transcript analysis, text mining and natural language processing
sentiment140 sentiment text analysis using free sentiment140 service
tm.plugin.dc a plug-in for package tm to support distributed text mining
tm.plugin.mail a plug-in for package tm to handle mail
textir a suite of tools for inference about text documents and associated sentiment
tau utilities for text analysis
textcat n-gram based text categorization
Rwordseg Chinese word segmentation using Ansj

Social Network Analysis and Graph Mining

Functions

Text Cleaning and Preparation

Corpus() build a corpus, which is a collection of text documents (tm)
tm map() transform text documents, e.g., stemming, stopword removal (tm)
tm filter() filtering out documents (tm)
TermDocumentMatrix(), DocumentTermMatrix() construct a
term-document matrix or a document-term matrix (tm)
Dictionary() construct a dictionary from a character vector or a termdocument matrix (tm)
stemDocument() stem words in a text document (tm)
stemCompletion() complete stemmed words (tm)
SnowballStemmer() Snowball word stemmers (Snowball)
stopwords(language) return stopwords in different languages (tm)
removeNumbers(), removePunctuation(), removeWords() remove numbers, punctuation marks, or a set of words from a text document (tm)
removeSparseTerms() remove sparse terms from a term-document matrix (tm)

graph(), graph.edgelist(), graph.adjacency(),

graph.incidence() create graph objects respectively from edges,
an edge list, an adjacency matrix and an incidence matrix (igraph)
plot(), tkplot(), rglplot() static, interactive and 3D plotting of
graphs (igraph)
gplot(), gplot3d() plot graphs (sna)
vcount(), ecount() number of vertices/edges (igraph)
V(), E() vertex/edge sequence of igraph (igraph)
is.directed() whether the graph is directed (igraph)
are.connected() check whether two nodes are connected (igraph)
degree(), betweenness(), closeness(), transitivity() various centrality scores (igraph, sna)
add.edges(), add.vertices(), delete.edges(), delete.vertices()
add and delete edges and vertices (igraph)
neighborhood() neighborhood of graph vertices (igraph, sna)
get.adjlist() adjacency lists for edges or vertices (igraph)

nei(), adj(), from(), to() vertex/edge sequence indexing (igraph)

cliques(), largest.cliques(), maximal.cliques(), clique.number()
find cliques, ie. complete subgraphs (igraph)
clusters(), no.clusters() maximal connected components of a graph and
the number of them (igraph)
fastgreedy.community(), spinglass.community() community detection
(igraph)
cohesive.blocks() calculate cohesive blocks (igraph)
induced.subgraph() create a subgraph of a graph (igraph)
%->%, %<-%, %--% edge sequence indexing (igraph)
get.edgelist() return an edge list in a two-column matrix (igraph)
read.graph(), write.graph() read and writ graphs from and to files
of various formats (igraph)

Packages
igraph network analysis and visualization
sna social network analysis
d3Network, networkD3 creating D3 JavaScript network, tree, dendrogram, and
Sankey graphs from R
statnet a set of tools for the representation, visualization, analysis and simulation
of network data
egonet ego-centric measures in social network analysis
snort social network-analysis on relational tables
network tools to create and modify network objects
bipartite visualising bipartite networks and calculating some (ecological) indices
blockmodelinggeneralized and classical blockmodeling of valued networks
diagram visualising simple graphs (networks), plotting flow diagrams
NetCluster clustering for networks
NetData network data for McFarlands SNA R labs
NetIndices estimating network indices, including trophic structure of foodwebs
in R
NetworkAnalysis statistical inference on populations of weighted or unweighted
networks
tnet analysis of weighted, two-mode, and longitudinal networks

Spatial Data Analysis

Functions
geocode() geocodes a location using Google Maps (ggmap)
plotGoogleMaps() create a plot of spatial data on Google Maps (plotGoogleMaps)
qmap() quick map plot (ggmap)
get map() queries the Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, or Stamen Maps server
for a map at a certain location (ggmap)
gvisGeoChart(), gvisGeoMap(), gvisIntensityMap(),
gvisMap() Google geo charts and maps (googleVis)
GetMap() download a static map from the Google server (RgoogleMaps)
ColorMap() plot levels of a variable in a colour-coded map (RgoogleMaps)
PlotOnStaticMap() overlay plot on background image of map tile
(RgoogleMaps)
TextOnStaticMap() plot text on map (RgoogleMaps)

Packages
plotGoogleMaps plot spatial data as HTML map mushup over Google Maps
RgoogleMaps overlay on Google map tiles in R
ggmap Spatial visualization with Google Maps and OpenStreetMap
plotKML visualization of spatial and spatio-temporal objects in Google Earth

lme() fit a linear mixed-effects model (nlme)

nlme() fit a nonlinear mixed-effects model (nlme)

mosaicplot() mosaic plot

matplot() plot the columns of one matrix against the columns of another
fourfoldplot() a fourfold display of a 2 2 k contingency table
persp() perspective plots of surfaces over the x?y plane
cloud(), wireframe() 3d scatter plots and surfaces (lattice)
interaction.plot() two-way interaction plot
iplot(), ihist(), ibar(), ipcp() interactive scatter plot, histogram, bar
plot, and parallel coordinates plot (iplots)
pdf(), postscript(), win.metafile(), jpeg(), bmp(),
png(), tiff() save graphs into files of various formats
gvisAnnotatedTimeLine(), gvisAreaChart(),
gvisBarChart(), gvisBubbleChart(),
gvisCandlestickChart(), gvisColumnChart(),
gvisComboChart(), gvisGauge(), gvisGeoChart(),
gvisGeoMap(), gvisIntensityMap(),
gvisLineChart(), gvisMap(), gvisMerge(),
gvisMotionChart(), gvisOrgChart(),
gvisPieChart(), gvisScatterChart(),
gvisSteppedAreaChart(), gvisTable(),
gvisTreeMap() various interactive charts produced with the Google
Visualisation API (googleVis)
gvisMerge() merge two googleVis charts into one (googleVis)

Principal Components and Factor Analysis

Packages

princomp() principal components analysis

prcomp() principal components analysis

ggplot2 an implementation of the Grammar of Graphics

ggvis interactive grammar of graphics
googleVis an interface between R and the Google Visualisation API to create
interactive charts
d3Network, networkD3 creating D3 JavaScript network, tree, dendrogram, and
Sankey graphs from R
rCharts interactive javascript visualizations from R
lattice a powerful high-level data visualization system, with an emphasis on multivariate data
vcd visualizing categorical data
iplots interactive graphics

SGCS Spatial Graph based Clustering Summaries for spatial point patterns
spdep spatial dependence: weighting schemes, statistics and models

Statistics
Summarization
summary() summarize data
describe() concise statistical description of data (Hmisc)
boxplot.stats() box plot statistics

Analysis of Variance
aov() fit an analysis of variance model
anova() compute analysis of variance (or deviance) tables for one or more fitted
model objects

Statistical Tests
chisq.test() chi-squared contingency table tests and goodness-of-fit tests
ks.test() Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests
t.test() students t-test
prop.test() test of equal or given proportions
binom.test() exact binomial test

Mixed Effects Models

Other Functions
var(), cov(), cor() variance, covariance, and correlation
density() compute kernel density estimates
cmdscale() Multidimensional Scaling (MDS)

Packages
nlme linear and nonlinear mixed effects models

Graphics
Functions
plot() generic function for plotting
barplot(), pie(), hist() bar chart, pie chart and histogram
boxplot() box-and-whisker plot
stripchart() one dimensional scatter plot
dotchart() Cleveland dot plot
qqnorm(), qqplot(), qqline() QQ (quantile-quantile) plot
coplot() conditioning plot
splom() conditional scatter plot matrices (lattice)
pairs() a matrix of scatterplots
cpairs() enhanced scatterplot matrix (gclus)
parcoord() parallel coordinate plot (MASS)
cparcoord() enhanced parallel coordinate plot (gclus)
parallelplot() parallel coordinates plot (lattice)
densityplot() kernel density plot (lattice)
contour(), filled.contour() contour plot
levelplot(), contourplot() level plots and contour plots (lattice)
smoothScatter() scatterplots with smoothed densities color representation;
capable of visualizing large datasets
sunflowerplot() a sunflower scatter plot
assocplot() association plot

Data Manipulation
Functions
transform() transform a data frame
scale() scaling and centering of matrix-like objects
t() matrix transpose
aperm() array transpose
sample() sampling
table(), tabulate(), xtabs() cross tabulation
stack(), unstack() stacking vectors
split(), unsplit() divide data into groups and reassemble
reshape() reshape a data frame between wide and long format
merge() merge two data frames; similar to database join operations
aggregate() compute summary statistics of data subsets
by() apply a function to a data frame split by factors
melt(), cast() melt and then cast data into the reshaped or aggregated
form you want (reshape)
complete.cases() find complete cases, i.e., cases without missing values
na.fail, na.omit, na.exclude, na.pass handle missing values

Packages
reshape flexibly restructure and aggregate data using melt and cast
reshape2 flexibly reshape data: a reboot of the reshape package
tidyr easily tidy data with spread and gather functions; an evolution of reshape2
data.table extension of data.frame for fast indexing, ordered joins, assignment,
and grouping and list columns
gdata various tools for data manipulation
dplyr a fast, consistent tool for working with data frame like objects

Data Access
Functions
save(), load() save and load R data objects
read.csv(), write.csv() import from and export to .CSV files
read.table(), write.table(), scan(), write() read and
write data
read.xlsx(), write.xlsx() read and write Excel files (xlsx)
read.fwf() read fixed width format files
write.matrix() write a matrix or data frame (MASS)
readLines(), writeLines() read/write text lines from/to a connection,
such as a text file
sqlQuery() submit an SQL query to an ODBC database (RODBC)
sqlFetch() read a table from an ODBC database (RODBC)
sqlSave(), sqlUpdate() write or update a table in an ODBC database
(RODBC)
sqlColumns() enquire about the column structure of tables (RODBC)
sqlTables() list tables on an ODBC connection (RODBC)
odbcConnect(), odbcClose(), odbcCloseAll() open/close connections to ODBC databases (RODBC)
dbSendQuery execute an SQL statement on a given database connection (DBI)
dbConnect(), dbDisconnect() create/close a connection to a DBMS
(DBI)

Packages
RODBC ODBC database access
foreign read and write data in other formats, such as Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS,
Stata, Systat, . . .
sqldf perform SQL selects on R data frames
DBI a database interface (DBI) between R and relational DBMS
RMySQL interface to the MySQL database
RJDBC access to databases through the JDBC interface
RSQLite SQLite interface for R
ROracle Oracle database interface (DBI) driver
RpgSQL DBI/RJDBC interface to PostgreSQL database
RODM interface to Oracle Data Mining
xlsx read, write, format Excel 2007 and Excel 97/2000/XP/2003 files
xlsReadWrite read and write Excel files
WriteXLS create Excel 2003 (XLS) files from data frames
SPARQL Use SPARQL to pose SELECT or UPDATE queries to an end-point

Web Data Access

Functions
download.file() download a file from the Internet
xmlParse(), htmlParse() parse an XML or HTML file (XML)
userTimeline(), homeTimeline(), mentions(),
retweetsOfMe() retrieve various timelines within the Twitter uni-

verse (twitteR)
searchTwitter() a search of Twitter based on a supplied search string (twitteR)
getUser(), lookupUsers() get information of Twitter users (twitteR)
getFollowers(), getFollowerIDs(), getFriends(),
getFriendIDs() get a list of followers/friends or their IDs of a
Twitter user (twitteR)
twListToDF() convert twitteR lists to data frames (twitteR)

Packages
twitteR an interface to the Twitter web API
RCurl general network (HTTP/FTP/. . . ) client interface for R
XML reading and creating XML and HTML documents
httr tools for working with URLs and HTTP; a simplified wrapper built on top
of RCurl

MapReduce, Hadoop and Spark

Functions
mapreduce() define and execute a MapReduce job (rmr2 )
keyval() create a key-value object (rmr2 )
from.dfs(), to.dfs() read/write R objects from/to file system (rmr2 )
hb.get(), hb.scan(), hb.get.data.frame() read HBase tables (rhbase )
hb.insert(), hb.insert.data.frame() write to HBase tables (rhbase )
hb.delete() delete from HBase tables (rhbase )

Packages
rmr2 perform data analysis with R via MapReduce on a Hadoop cluster
rhdfs connect to the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
rhbase connect to the NoSQL HBase database
Rhipe R and Hadoop Integrated Processing Environment
SparkR a light-weight frontend to use Apache Spark from R
RHive distributed computing via HIVE query
Segue Parallel R in the cloud using Amazons Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) engine
HadoopStreaming Utilities for using R scripts in Hadoop streaming
hive distributed computing via the MapReduce paradigm
rHadoopClient Hadoop client interface for R

Large Data
Functions
as.ffdf() coerce a dataframe to an ffdf (ff )
read.table.ffdf(), read.csv.ffdf() read data from a flat file to an ffdf
object (ff )
write.table.ffdf(), write.csv.ffdf() write an ffdf object to a flat file
(ff )
ffdfappend() append a dataframe or an ffdf to an existing ffdf (ff )
big.matrix() create a standard big.matrix, which is constrained to available
RAM (bigmemory)
read.big.matrix() create a big.matrix by reading from an ASCII file (bigmemory)
write.big.matrix() write a big.matrix to a file (bigmemory)
filebacked.big.matrix() create a file-backed big.matrix, which may exceed available RAM by using hard drive space (bigmemory)
mwhich() expanded which-like functionality (bigmemory)

Packages
ff memory-efficient storage of large data on disk and fast access functions
ffbase basic statistical functions for package ff

filehash a simple key-value database for handling large data

g.data create and maintain delayed-data packages
BufferedMatrix a matrix data storage object held in temporary files
biglm regression for data too large to fit in memory
bigmemory manage massive matrices with shared memory and memory-mapped
files
biganalytics extend the bigmemory package with various analytics
bigtabulate table-, tapply-, and split-like functionality for matrix and
big.matrix objects

Parallel Computing
Functions
sfInit(), sfStop() initialize and stop the cluster (snowfall)
sfLapply(), sfSapply(), sfApply()
parallel
versions
of
lapply(), sapply(), apply() (snowfall)
foreach(...) %dopar% looping in parallel (foreach)
registerDoSEQ(), registerDoSNOW(), registerDoMC() register respectively the sequential, SNOW and multicore parallel backend with the
foreach package (foreach, doSNOW, doMC)

Packages
snowfall usability wrapper around snow for easier development of parallel R
programs
snow simple parallel computing in R
multicore parallel processing of R code on machines with multiple cores or
CPUs
snowFT extension of snow supporting fault tolerant and reproducible applications, and easy-to-use parallel programming
Rmpi interface (Wrapper) to MPI (Message-Passing Interface)
rpvm R interface to PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)
nws provide coordination and parallel execution facilities
foreach foreach looping construct for R
doMC foreach parallel adaptor for the multicore package
doSNOW foreach parallel adaptor for the snow package
doMPI foreach parallel adaptor for the Rmpi package
doParallel foreach parallel adaptor for the multicore package
doRNG generic reproducible parallel backend for foreach Loops
GridR execute functions on remote hosts, clusters or grids
fork R functions for handling multiple processes

Interface to Weka
Package RWeka is an R interface to Weka, and enables to use the following Weka
functions in R.
Association rules:
Apriori(), Tertius()
Regression and classification:
LinearRegression(), Logistic(), SMO()
Lazy classifiers:
IBk(), LBR()
Meta classifiers:
AdaBoostM1(), Bagging(), LogitBoost(), MultiBoostAB(),
Stacking(),
CostSensitiveClassifier()
Rule classifiers:
JRip(), M5Rules(), OneR(), PART()

Regression and classification trees:

J48(), LMT(), M5P(), DecisionStump()
Clustering:
Cobweb(), FarthestFirst(), SimpleKMeans(), XMeans(),
DBScan()
Filters:
Normalize(), Discretize()
Word stemmers:
IteratedLovinsStemmer(), LovinsStemmer()
Tokenizers:
AlphabeticTokenizer(), NGramTokenizer(), WordTokenizer()

Interface to Other Programming Languages

Functions
.jcall() call a Java method (rJava)
.jnew() create a new Java object (rJava)
.jinit() initialize the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) (rJava)
.jaddClassPath() adds directories or JAR files to the class path (rJava)

Packages
rJava low-level R to Java interface

Generating Documents and Reports

Functions
Sweave() mixing text and R/S code for automatic report generation
xtable() export tables to LaTeX or HTML (xtable)

Packages
knitr a general-purpose package for dynamic report generation in R
xtable export tables to LaTeX or HTML
R2HTML making HTML reports
R2PPT generating Microsoft PowerPoint presentations

R Functions for Regression Analysis, by Vito Ricci

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Ricci-refcard-regression.
pdf
R Functions for Time Series Analysis, by Vito Ricci
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Ricci-refcard-ts.pdf

RDataMining Books
R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies
introduces into using R for data mining with examples and case studies.
http://www.rdatamining.com/books/rdm
Data Mining Applications with R
presents 15 real-world applications on data mining with R.
http://www.rdatamining.com/books/dmar

RDataMining Website, Group, Twitter & Package

RDataMining Website
http://www.rdatamining.com
RDataMining Group on LinkedIn (8000+ members)
http://group.rdatamining.com
RDataMining on Twitter (1900+ followers)
http://twitter.com/rdatamining
RDataMining Project on R-Forge
http://www.rdatamining.com/package
http://package.rdatamining.com

Comments & Feedback

If you have any comments, or would like to suggest any relevant R packages/functions, please feel free to email me <[email protected]>.
Thanks.
If you have any questions on using R for data mining, please post them to the
RDataMining Group on LinkedIn at http://group.rdatamining.com.

Building GUIs and Web Applications

shiny web application framework for R
svDialogs dialog boxes
gWidgets a toolkit-independent API for building interactive GUIs

R Editors/GUIs
RStudio a free integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Tinn-R a free GUI for R language and environment
rattle graphical user interface for data mining in R
Rpad workbook-style, web-based interface to R
RPMG graphical user interface (GUI) for interactive R analysis sessions
Red-R An open source visual programming GUI interface for R
R AnalyticFlow a software which enables data analysis by drawing analysis
flowcharts
latticist a graphical user interface for exploratory visualisation

Other R Reference Cards

R Reference Card, by Tom Short
http://rpad.googlecode.com/svn-history/r76/Rpad_homepage/
R-refcard.pdf or
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Short-refcard.pdf
R Reference Card, by Jonathan Baron
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/refcard.pdf