Two of the prime open-source environments available for machine/statistical learning in data mining and knowledge discovery
are the software packages
Weka and
R which have emerged from the machine learning and statistics communities, respectively. To make the different sets of tools
from both environments available in a single unified system, an
R package
RWeka is suggested which interfaces
Weka’s functionality to
R. With only a thin layer of (mostly
R) code, a set of general interface generators is provided which can set up interface functions with the usual “
R look and feel”, re-using
Weka’s standardized interface of learner classes (including classifiers, clusterers, associators, filters, loaders, savers, and
stemmers) with associated methods.