arules (version 1.7-8)

pmml: Read and Write PMML

Description

This function reads and writes PMML representations (version 4.1) of associations (itemsets and rules). Write delegates to package pmml.

Usage

write.PMML(x, file)
read.PMML(file)

Arguments

x

a rules or itemsets object.

file

name of the PMML file (for read.PMML() also a XML root node can be supplied).

Author

Michael Hahsler

References

PMML 4.4 - Association Rules. https://dmg.org/pmml/v4-4/AssociationRules.html

See Also

pmml::pmml().

Other import/export: DATAFRAME(), LIST(), read, write()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # requireNamespace("pmml", quietly = TRUE)
data("Groceries")

rules <- apriori(Groceries, parameter = list(support = 0.001))
rules <- head(rules, by = "lift")
rules

### save rules as PMML
write.PMML(rules, file = "rules.xml")

### read rules back
rules2 <- read.PMML("rules.xml")
rules2

### compare rules
inspect(rules[1])
inspect(rules2[1])

### clean up
unlink("rules.xml")
}