R: Recipes for Analysis, Visualization and Machine Learning

Training a neural network with nnet

The nnet package is another package that can deal with artificial neural networks. This package provides the functionality to train feed-forward neural networks with traditional back propagation. As you can find most of the neural network function implemented in the neuralnet package, in this recipe we provide a short overview of how to train neural networks with nnet.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we do not use the trainset and trainset generated from the previous step; please reload the iris dataset again.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to train the neural network with nnet:

1. First, install and load the nnet package:

   > install.packages("nnet")
   > library(nnet)
   

2. Next, split the dataset into training and ...