R Bioinformatics Cookbook - Second Edition

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Machine Learning with mlr3

Machine learning (ML) is a broad term that covers a wide range of bioinformatic and data science activities including, regression, classification, and data clustering.

The mlr3 package is an open source ML framework for the R programming language. It is designed to provide a unified and efficient interface for building, evaluating, and comparing ML models. mlr3 is built on top of the mlr package, which is one of the most popular ML packages in R.

mlr3 follows a modular design, which means that different components of the ML process, such as data preprocessing, feature selection, model training, and model evaluation, are separated into individual objects. This design allows for greater flexibility and modularity, ...