Task view for machine learning in R

From the previous chapters, we know that there are about three dozen task views for different topics. A task view is a set of R packages around a specific topic such as finance, econometrics, and the like. In the previous chapter, we briefly discussed the task view for clustering. There is no task view with a name of supervised learning. Instead, the closest one will be the machine learning task view; see the screenshot here for the top part:

The URL is given in the preceding screenshot. Again, we could issue just three lines of R code to install the R packages included in the task view:

>install.packages("ctv") ...

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