0.1 Prerequisites

To run exercises in this book, you will need R installed on your computer. The installation files can be obtained from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN): https://cran.r-project.org.

Although not required, I strongly recommend installing RStudio IDE in order to run R: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

The book uses several data sets, which are available from various websites. If you plan to use the same data sets, you will need Internet connection to download them.

All the data sets used in this book are also available to download from my Github repository: https://github.com/ashgreat/datasets

The book uses caret package for most of the modeling. It is highly recommended that you read the package documentation at https://topepo.github.io/caret/index.html.