OpenML: An R Package to Connect to the Machine Learning Platform OpenML
This work provides a tool for machine learning researchers to streamline and collaborate on experiments, though it is incremental as it builds on the existing OpenML platform.
The authors tackled the problem of facilitating machine learning research by developing an R package to connect to the OpenML platform, enabling users to easily share and access data, tasks, and experiments, which automates drudge work and enhances reproducibility and collaboration.
OpenML is an online machine learning platform where researchers can easily share data, machine learning tasks and experiments as well as organize them online to work and collaborate more efficiently. In this paper, we present an R package to interface with the OpenML platform and illustrate its usage in combination with the machine learning R package mlr. We show how the OpenML package allows R users to easily search, download and upload data sets and machine learning tasks. Furthermore, we also show how to upload results of experiments, share them with others and download results from other users. Beyond ensuring reproducibility of results, the OpenML platform automates much of the drudge work, speeds up research, facilitates collaboration and increases the users' visibility online.