This dataset is provided in the StatLib library, predicting the mpg attribute where eight of the original instances were removed because they had unknown values for the mpg attribute. The original dataset is available in the auto-mpg.data-original file on the UCI website and you can refer to it using the following link: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/auto+mpg.
We will be using data available at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Exploratory-Data-Analysis-with-R/tree/master/ch09.
As mentioned on their website, The data concerns city-cycle fuel consumption in miles per gallon, to be predicted in terms of three multivalued discrete, and five continuous, attributes.
This section is all about understanding the dataset and its attributes. We will carry out the following steps as we did in the previous chapters...