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Created February 5, 2016 22:05 — forked from timjurka/cancer.R
How to classify breast cancer as benign or malignant using RTextTools.
# FILE: Classifying Breast Cancer as Benign or Malignant
# AUTHOR: Timothy P. Jurka
library(RTextTools);
# GET THE BREAST CANCER DATA FROM http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/breast-cancer-wisconsin/wdbc.names
data <- read.csv("http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/breast-cancer-wisconsin/breast-cancer-wisconsin.data",header=FALSE)
data <- data[-1]
# ADD TEXTUAL DESCRIPTORS FOR EACH MASS CHARACTERISTIC FOR THE DOCUMENT-TERM MATRIX