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Machine Learning with R Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Machine Learning with R Quick Start Guide A beginner's guide to implementing machine learning techniques from scratch using R 3.5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838644338
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Iván Pastor Sanz Iván Pastor Sanz
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Data overview

First, we are going to analyze the types of variables that we have in the dataset. For that, we can use the class function, which tells us whether a variable is a number, a character, or a matrix. For example, the class of the identifying number of a bank ID_RSSD can be obtained as follows:

class(Model_database$ID_RSSD)

## [1] "integer"

This function indicates that this variable is a number without decimals.

We can calculate the same information for all the variables and store it using the following code:

 classes<-as.data.frame(sapply(Model_database, class))
classes<-cbind(colnames(Model_database),classes)
colnames(classes)<-c("variable","class")

With sapply, calculate iteratively the class function on the dataset. Then, combine the name of variables with the class in only a data frame, and, finally, rename the resulting dataset...

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