machine learning - Calculate AUC in R?

Question

Given a vector of scores and a vector of actual class labels, how do you calculate a single-number AUC metric for a binary classifier in the R language or in simple English?

Page 9 of "AUC: a Better Measure..." seems to require knowing the class labels, and here is an example in MATLAB where I don't understand

R(Actual == 1))

Because R (not to be confused with the R language) is defined a vector but used as a function?

Answer 1

The ROCR package will calculate the AUC among other statistics:

auc.tmp <- performance(pred,"auc"); auc <- as.numeric([email protected])