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Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from   Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook - Second Edition Dive into data analysis with Clojure through over 100 practical recipes for every stage of the analysis and collection process

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784390297
Length 372 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Eric Richard Rochester Eric Richard Rochester
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Importing Data for Analysis FREE CHAPTER 2. Cleaning and Validating Data 3. Managing Complexity with Concurrent Programming 4. Improving Performance with Parallel Programming 5. Distributed Data Processing with Cascalog 6. Working with Incanter Datasets 7. Statistical Data Analysis with Incanter 8. Working with Mathematica and R 9. Clustering, Classifying, and Working with Weka 10. Working with Unstructured and Textual Data 11. Graphing in Incanter 12. Creating Charts for the Web Index

Setting up R to talk to Clojure


Another major statistical processing environment is R. It's an open source programming language and environment designed for statistical analysis. It's widely used and has an active community as well as a huge and growing body of useful add-on packages.

While there's no Clojure-specific interoperability library, there is one for Java, and we can use that to pass calls to R and to get results back. In this recipe, we'll set this system up.

Getting ready

We'll need to have R installed. We can download it from http://www.r-project.org/ by following the link to CRAN, picking a mirror, and downloading the correct version of R for our platform.

You'll also need to have Maven (http://maven.apache.org/) installed in order to build and install the libraries to access R.

How to do it…

There are two parts to setting up this system. We'll get the R-side working, and then we'll see what Clojure needs to have in place.

Setting up R

To set up the system, we first have to configure...

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