What is recipes and how to use it for feature engineering
mainThe recipes package provides a dplyr-like, pipeable interface for defining sequences of feature engineering steps. It is used to prepare data for modeling by creating preprocessing specifications (recipes) that can be applied to datasets. This is an alternative to using R formulas or model.matrix for creating design matrices, offering more flexibility for complex preprocessing workflows.
To use recipes, you define a recipe() object specifying the formula and the data, then chain preprocessing steps (starting with step_*) using the pipe operator.
library(recipes)
data(ad_data, package = "modeldata")
ad_rec <- recipe(Class ~ tau + VEGF, data = ad_data) |>
step_normalize(all_numeric_predictors())
ad_rec