Machine Learning with R Cookbook - Second Edition

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As the transaction data is the base for mining associations and frequent patterns, we have to learn how to display the associations to gain insights and determine how associations are built. The arules package provides various methods to inspect transactions. First, we use the LIST function to obtain the list representation of the transaction data. We can then use the summary function to obtain information, such as basic descriptions, most frequent items, and the transaction length distribution.

Next, we use the inspect function to display the transactions. Besides displaying all transactions, one can first filter the transactions by size and then display the associations by using the inspect function. Furthermore, we can ...