createAbalone: Abalone Age prediction

In jkrijthe/createdatasets: Download and preprocess common benchmark dataset for use in reproduceable simulation studies

Description

Predict the age of abalone from physical measurements

Usage

createAbalone(file = getfilepath("abalone.rds"), write = TRUE,
  read = TRUE)

Arguments

file	character; path/filename to write data file to
write	logical; should the dataset be written to disk for later use? (default: TRUE)
read	logical; should we try to read the dataset from the specified location first? (default: TRUE)

Details

Task: Regression: formula(Rings~.) Often the final 1044 examples as used test, the first 3133 for training.

From UCI: "Data can be treated as a classification task, for instance Data set treated as a 3-category classification problem (grouping ring classes 1-8, 9 and 10, and 11 on)"

Value

The dataset as a data.table

References

Warwick J Nash, Tracy L Sellers, Simon R Talbot, Andrew J Cawthorn and Wes B Ford (1994) "The Population Biology of Abalone (_Haliotis_ species) in Tasmania. I. Blacklip Abalone (_H. rubra_) from the North Coast and Islands of Bass Strait", Sea Fisheries Division, Technical Report No. 48 (ISSN 1034-3288)

See Also

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Abalone

jkrijthe/createdatasets documentation built on May 19, 2019, 12:44 p.m.