Discretization in R

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Is anyone aware of a package that implements a supervised learning algorithm for the discretization of continuous variables?

The dprep package contained functions along this line, but the package has been deprecated. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help!

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 13 '11 at 18:48

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You can still use the dprep package, but you have to install it from source (I just tested and it works well). However, you may well have a look at the discretization or infotheo packages which provide similar functionalities, e.g. equal interval width, equal frequency intervals, ChiMerge, etc.

answered May 13 '11 at 18:48

chl

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Does this look like it has a similar functionality? http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/classInt/classInt.pdf – Roman Luštrik May 15 '11 at 05:39
Thanks chl! The discretization and infotheo packages give me everything I was looking for. – Jason May 18 '11 at 21:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 02 '17 at 16:18

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A simple example using infotheo

> set.seed(1)
> infotheo::discretize(rnorm(10))
   X
1  1
2  1
3  1
4  2
5  2
6  1
7  2
8  2
9  2
10 1

answered Jan 02 '17 at 16:18

Adriano Rivolli

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