Classifying using the Naïve Bayes approach

The e1071 package contains the naiveBayes function for the Naïve Bayes classification.

Getting ready

If you do not already have the e1071 and caret packages, install them now. Download the data files for this chapter from the book's website and place the electronics-purchase.csv file in your R working directory. Naïve Bayes requires all the variables to be categorical. So, if needed, you should first convert all variables accordingly—refer to the recipe Binning numerical data in Chapter, Acquire and Prepare the Ingredients – Your Data.

How to do it...

To classify using the Naïve Bayes method, follow these steps:

  1. Load the e1071 and caret packages:
    > library(e1071)
> library(caret)
  2. Read the data:
    > ep <- read.csv("electronics-purchase.csv") ...

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