Description

Classification data to predict the species of penguins from the palmerpenguins package, see palmerpenguins::penguins. A better alternative to the iris data set.

Format

R6::R6Class inheriting from TaskClassif.

Construction

Meta Information

• Task type: “classif”

• Dimensions: 344x8

• Properties: “multiclass”

• Has Missings: TRUE

• Target: “species”

• Features: “bill_depth”, “bill_length”, “body_mass”, “flipper_length”, “island”, “sex”, “year”

Pre-processing

• The unit of measurement have been removed from the column names. Lengths are given in millimeters (mm), weight in gram (g).

Source

palmerpenguins

References

Gorman KB, Williams TD, Fraser WR (2014). “Ecological Sexual Dimorphism and Environmental Variability within a Community of Antarctic Penguins (Genus Pygoscelis).” PLoS ONE, 9(3), e90081. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090081.

https://github.com/allisonhorst/palmerpenguins

See Also

Dictionary of Tasks: mlr_tasks

as.data.table(mlr_tasks) for a complete table of all (also dynamically created) Tasks.

Other Task: TaskClassif, TaskRegr, TaskSupervised, TaskUnsupervised, Task, mlr_tasks_boston_housing, mlr_tasks_breast_cancer, mlr_tasks_german_credit, mlr_tasks_iris, mlr_tasks_mtcars, mlr_tasks_pima, mlr_tasks_sonar, mlr_tasks_spam, mlr_tasks_wine, mlr_tasks_zoo, mlr_tasks