clickstream (version 1.0)

MarkovChain-class: Class "MarkovChain"

Description

This S4 class describes MarkovChain objects.

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form new("MarkovChain", ...).

See Also

fitMarkovChain

Examples

# show MarkovChain definition
showClass("MarkovChain")

# fit a simple Markov chain from a list of click streams
clickstreams<-c("User1,h,c,c,p,c,h,c,p,p,c,p,p,o",
               "User2,i,c,i,c,c,c,d",
               "User3,h,i,c,i,c,p,c,c,p,c,c,i,d",
               "User4,c,c,p,c,d",
               "User5,h,c,c,p,p,c,p,p,p,i,p,o",
               "User6,i,h,c,c,p,p,c,p,c,d")
csf<-tempfile()
writeLines(clickstreams, csf)
cls<-readClickstreams(csf, header=TRUE)
mc<-fitMarkovChain(cls)
print(mc)