The ucimlrepo package has just received it’s second release, v0.0.2! This release focuses on improving the user experience and avoiding the wraith of CRAN when fetching datasets from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. We’ve also made some internal changes to speed up the package for large datasets.
This package is an unoffical port of the Python ucimlrepo package.
For details, see the ucimlrepo news file entry below:
ucimlrepo news file entry for version 0.0.2 (2024-09-02)
Features
- Improved graceful errors for
fetch_ucirepo()andlist_available_datasets()when resources are not found/available. (#3, thanks Prof. Ripley!) - Speed up
fetch_ucirepo()for large data frames by switching to using base functionals instead of growing a vector in a loop while sorting variable roles. (#6)
Bug fixes
- Fixed internal subset issue with
fetch_ucirepo()when metadata from the repository had whitespace characters in the variable names. (#2)