DATA MINING Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
Desktop Survival Project Home Data Mining Introduction Getting Started Data Loading Data Exploring Data Interactive Graphics Test Descriptive Data Mining Predictive Data Mining Evaluation and Deployment Data Cleaning Handling Missing Data Transforming Data Data Reduction Deployment Troubleshooting Issues Moving into R Beyond Rattle R Getting Help Data Graphics in R Understanding Data Preparing Data Descriptive and Predictive Analytics Issues Evaluating Models Reporting Topics in Data Mining Fraud Analysis Archetype Analysis Text Mining Survival Analysis Algorithms Bagging Bayes Classifier Cluster Analysis Conditional Trees Hierarchical Clustering K-Nearest Neighbours Linear Models Support Vector Machines Open Products AlphaMiner Borgelt Data Mining Suite KNime R Rattle Weka Closed Products C4.5 Clementine Equbits Foresight GhostMiner InductionEngine ODM Enterprise Miner Statistica Data Miner TreeNet Virtual Predict Appendices Installing Rattle Bibliography Index Preface Goals Organisation Features Audience Typographical Conventions A Note on Languages Currency Acknowledgements

Install GNU/Linux

Debian GNU/Linux is the the premier GNU/Linux distribution. Ubuntu, based on Debian, is the premier supported distribution, and is highly recommended. Ubuntu is easy to install from CD and will be up and running within an hour (see http://ubuntu.com). GNU/Linux can also be installed through virtualisation on a MS/Windows desktop using something like VirtualBox.

R and its associated packages (some 2000 of them) are available from CRAN. They have been packaged for Debian (and thus Ubuntu) by Dirk Eddelbuettel. This ensures a trouble free installation, once Debian or Ubuntu is installed.

The Debian (and thus Ubuntu) Rattle package comes from an R specific package archive which we need to identify to our Debian package manager.

1. Inform Debian/Ubuntu of the CRAN archive by editing, as the administrator, the file /etc/apt/sources.list:
   
   

   $ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
   

   
   Add one of the following lines, depending on your computer architecture, to this file (it could be added near the top):
   
   

   deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-i386 testing/
   deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64 testing/
   

   
   Update the package information:
   
   

   $ wajig update
   

   
   

2. Install Rattle:
   
   

   $ wajig install r-cran-rattle
   

   
   

3. Start up Rattle by starting up a Terminal:
   
   

   $ R
   > library(rattle)
   > rattle()
   

   
   

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