arulesViz - Visualizing Association Rules and Frequent Itemsets with R

This R package extends package arules with various visualization techniques for association rules and itemsets. The package also includes several interactive visualizations for rule exploration.

Installation

Stable CRAN version: install from within R with

install.packages("arulesViz")

Current development version: Download package from AppVeyor or install from GitHub (needs devtools).

library("devtools")
install_github("mhahsler/arulesViz")

This might also require the development version of arules.

Features

Visualizations using base, grid and plotly.
Interactive visualizations using grid and plotly.
Interactive rule inspection with datatable.
Integrated interactive rule exploration using ruleExplorer.

Available Visualizations:

Scatterplot, two-key plot
Matrix and matrix 3D visualization
Grouped matrix-based visualization
Several graph-based visualizations
Doubledecker and mosaic plots
Parallel Coordinate plot

Usage

Mine some rules.

library(arulesViz)
data(Groceries)
rules <- apriori(Groceries, parameter=list(support=0.005, confidence=0.5))

Standard visualization

plot(rules)

Interactive visualization with plotly

plot(rules, engine = "plotly")

Open example output.

Interactive inspect with datatable

inspectDT(rules)