Category:R Packages

foreign - Functions for reading and writing data stored by some versions of Epi Info, Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Systat and Weka and for reading and writing some dBase files

FSelector - This package provides functions for selecting attributes from a given dataset. Attribute subset selection is the process of identifying and removing as much of the irrelevant and redundant information as possible.

FactoMineR - an R package for exploratory data analysis (PCA)

Rpart - Recursive partitioning for classification, regression and survival trees.

Parallel and doParallel - for parallel processing in R. You need to include these packages (or at least one of them) when trying to perform parallel processing in R.

Decision Tree Packages: * C50 * rpart * party * rattle  * tree

Neural Net Packages: * nnet - single hidden layer neural net ( supports numerical and nominal attributes ). * neuralnet * caret - this is more than a ANN package, it does lots of other jobs, since it's full name is Classification And REgression training. * pixmap - for reading image attributes in pgm file format

Bayesian Learning Packages: * e1071 - Naive Bayes Classifier * gmodels - used for comparing predicted and actual values * tm - text mining * wordcloud - text graphics * bnlearn - Bayesian Learning * klaR - Naive Bayes Classifier (see NaiveBayes)

Nearest Neighbor Packages: * kknn * class * fnn Text Mining Packages:

* tm​ * openNLP (R port of the old Java based NLP library)

Genetic Algorithm Packages: * GA * genoud  * genalg  * gaoptim (only for real and permutation based problems)