A collection of artificial and real-world machine learning benchmark problems, including, e.g., several data sets from the UCI repository.
Changes in Version 2.1-1
o Added a NAMESPACE.
Changes in Version 2.1-0
o Removed dependencies on e1071 and scatterplot3d (the latter replaced by cloud() from lattice).
o mlbench.corners() has been renamed to mlbench.hypercube().
o New function mlbench.simplex() by Manuel Eugster and Sebastian Kaiser.
o Bugfixes in the bayesclass() methods for ringnorm and threenorm submitted by Julia Schiffer.
Changes in Version 2.0-0
o Changed license of complete package to GPL-2.
o Recompressed all data sets using xz.
o Added examples to all help pages.
o Added info about UCI repository to mlbench.waveform.Rd.
Changes in Version 1.1-6
o Improve CITATION.
Changes in Version 1.1-5
o Fixed Rd bug and renamed README to LICENSE.
Changes in Version 1.1-4
o Fixed documentation of S3 objects.
Changes in Version 1.1-3
o Bugfix: data sets that are loaded using R code did not close the corresponding connections.
Changes in Version 1.1-2
o New data set Zoo.
Changes in Version 1.1-2
o Converted the 'chas' columns of BostonHousing2 to a factor.
o Added a corrected version of PimaIndiansDiabetes as PimaIndiansDiabetes2.
o Added correct citation for UCI repository in various places.
Changes in Version 1.1-1
o Add '...' argument to as.data.frame() methods for consistency with R 2.4.0 or later.
Changes in Version 1.1-0
o New artificial classification problems mlbench.shapes() and mlbench.corners()
o Added corrected version of Boston housing data (thanks to John Maindonald).
Changes in Version 1.0-1
o Minor fixes in BostonHousing.Rd.
Changes in Version 1.0-1
o Fixed a Bug in the waveform function (thanks to Karsten L�bke).
o Added a "ZipData: No" to the DESCRIPTION file.
o All data files are now in compressed format.
Changes in Version 1.0-0
o New function mlbench.smiley().
o Version 1.0-0 is not really different from the previous release (version 0.5-10), but we decided that it is stupid to have a version number smaller than 1.0 for a package that is stable and useful.