Can you feel your backpack becoming heavy? This chapter was a big boost for your R knowledge: nearly 30 pages earlier you were only just aware of how to print "Hello World" with R, and now you have discovered useful insights from your real banking data.
We have learned the following:
- Installing additional packages in the base version of RÂ
- Importing data into your R environment
- Creating pivot tables in R
- Discovering and showing information through data visualization techniques
- Plotting data with ggplot2
I am tempted to accelerate further in the next chapter, immediately showing you how to implement data mining algorithms with the powerful weapon we have at our disposal. But, we have to be prudent and firmly cover the foundations to let you soundly build upon them. In the next chapter, we'll learn how to organize and conduct a data mining project through...