R Integration in Weka by Mark Hall.
From the post:
These days it seems like every man and his proverbial dog is integrating the open-source R statistical language with his/her analytic tool. R users have long had access to Weka via the RWeka package, which allows R scripts to call out to Weka schemes and get the results back into R. Not to be left out in the cold, Weka now has a brand new package that brings the power of R into the Weka framework.
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In this section I briefly cover what the new RPlugin package for Weka >= 3.7.6 offers. This package can be installed via Weka’s built-in package manager.
Here is an list of the functionality implemented:
- Execution of arbitrary R scripts in Weka’s Knowledge Flow engine
- Datasets into and out of the R environment
- Textual results out of the R environment
- Graphics out of R in png format for viewing inside of Weka and saving to files via the JavaGD graphics device for R
- A perspective for the Knowledge Flow and a plugin tab for the Explorer that provides visualization of R graphics and an interactive R console
- A wrapper classifier that invokes learning and prediction of R machine learning schemes via the MLR (Machine Learning in R) library
The use of R appears to be spreading! (Oracle, SAP, Hadoop, just to name a few that come readily to mind.)
Where is it on your list of data mining tools?
I first saw this at DZone.