Example Tasks

For your convenience mlr provides pre-defined Tasks for each type of learning problem. These are used throughout this tutorial in order to get shorter and more readable code.

Type Task Description
classif bc.task Wisconsin Breast Cancer classification task
iris.task Iris classification task
pid.task PimaIndiansDiabetes classification task
sonar.task Sonar classification task
cluster agri.task European Union Agricultural Workforces clustering task
mtcars.task Motor Trend Car Road Tests clustering task
costsens costiris.task Iris cost-sensitive classification task
multilabel yeast.task Yeast multilabel classification task
regr bh.task Boston Housing regression task
surv lung.task NCCTG Lung Cancer survival task
wpbc.task Wisonsin Prognostic Breast Cancer (WPBC) survival task