Code for Machine Learning for Hackers

This repository contains all of the code examples for Machine Learning for Hackers (2012). The code may not appear exactly as it does in the text, as additional comments and modifications may have been added since publication.

Getting started

The code in this book relies on several R libraries. Two libraries, RCurl and XML require additional software to be installed:

• http://curl.haxx.se/ (for RCurl)
• http://xmlsoft.org/ (for XML)

To make sure you have all of the requite libraries run the package_installer.R script. In your R console type the following:

> source("package_installer.R")

When running the installer inside R you will be asked where to save the library files. If you’d like to install the libraries globally, you can run script at the command-line with admin privileges:

$ sudo RScript package_installer.R

Authors

• Drew Conway, Department of Politics, New York University http://drewconway.com/
• John Myles White, Data Science, Facebook http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/

License

All source code is copyright © 2012, under the Simplified BSD License.
For more information on FreeBSD see: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

All images and materials produced by this code are licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/