Multivariate Data Analysis Tools

mdatools is an R package for preprocessing, exploring and analysis of multivariate data. The package provides methods mostly common for Chemometrics. It was created for an introductory PhD course on Chemometrics given at Section of Chemical Engineering, Aalborg University.

The general idea of the package is to collect most widespread chemometric methods and give a similar "user interface" for using them. So if a user knows how to make a model and visualise results for one method, he or she can easily do this for the others.

For more details and examples read a Bookdown tutorial.

What is new

The latest major release (0.8.0) has a lot of new features and small improvements. First of all, the tutorial has been moved from GitBook to Bookdown as there were many issues with the first. The tutorial was rewritten completely and now almost comprehensive (some of chapters are still missing though). It is available via Github Pages. A list of other changes is available here

How to install

The package is available from CRAN by usual installing procedure. However due to restrictions in CRAN politics regarding number of submissions (one in 3-4 month) only major releases will be published there (with 2-3 weeks delay after GitHub release as more thorought testing is needed). To get the latest release plase use GitHub sources. You can download a zip-file with source package and install it using the install.packages command, e.g. if the downloaded file is mdatools_0.8.2.tar.gz and it is located in a current working directory, just run the following:

install.packages('mdatools_0.8.2.tar.gz')

If you have devtools package installed, the following command will install the latest release from the master branch of GitHub repository (do not forget to load the devtools package first):

install_github('svkucheryavski/mdatools')