3.2 Exploring Data

Oracle R Enterprise provides functions that enable you to perform exploratory data analysis. With these functions, you can perform common statistical operations.

The functions and their uses are described in the following topics:

• About the Exploratory Data Analysis Functions

• About the NARROW Data Set for Examples

• Correlating Data

• Cross-Tabulating Data

• Analyzing the Frequency of Cross-Tabulations

• Building Exponential Smoothing Models on Time Series Data

• Ranking Data

• Sorting Data

• Summarizing Data with ore.summary

• Analyzing Distribution of Numeric Variables

• Principal Component Analysis

• Singular Value Decomposition