Outlier detection for multi column data frame in R - r

Question

I have a data frame with 18 columns and about 12000 rows. I want to find the outliers for the first 17 columns and compare the results with the column 18. The column 18 is a factor and contains data which can be used as indicator of outlier.
My data frame is ufo and I remove the column 18 as follow:
ufo2 <- ufo[,1:17]
and then convert 3 non0numeric columns to numeric values:
ufo2$Weight <- as.numeric(ufo2$Weight)
ufo2$InvoiceValue <- as.numeric(ufo2$InvoiceValue)
ufo2$Score <- as.numeric(ufo2$Score)
and then use the following command for outlier detection:
outlier.scores <- lofactor(ufo2, k=5)
But all of the elements of the outlier.scores are NA!!!
Do I have any mistake in this code?
Is there another way to find outlier for such a data frame?
All of my code:
setwd(datadirectory)
library(doMC)
registerDoMC(cores=8)
library(DMwR)
# load data
load("data_9802-f2.RData")
ufo2 <- ufo[,2:17]
ufo2$Weight <- as.numeric(ufo2$Weight)
ufo2$InvoiceValue <- as.numeric(ufo2$InvoiceValue)
ufo2$Score <- as.numeric(ufo2$Score)
outlier.scores <- lofactor(ufo2, k=5)
The output of the dput(head(ufo2)) is:
structure(list(Origin = c(2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L), IO = c(2L,
2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L), Lot = c(1003L, 1003L, 1003L, 1012L, 1012L,
1013L), DocNumber = c(10069L, 10069L, 10087L, 10355L, 10355L,
10382L), OperatorID = c(5698L, 5698L, 2015L, 246L, 246L, 4135L
), Month = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), LineNo = c(1L, 2L, 1L,
1L, 2L, 1L), Country = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 11L, 1L), ProduceCode = c(63456227L,
63455714L, 33687427L, 32686627L, 32686627L, 791614L), Weight = c(900,
850, 483, 110000, 5900, 1000), InvoiceValue = c(637, 775, 2896,
48812, 1459, 77), InvoiceValueWeight = c(707L, 912L, 5995L, 444L,
247L, 77L), AvgWeightMonth = c(1194.53, 1175.53, 7607.17, 311.667,
311.667, 363.526), SDWeightMonth = c(864.931, 780.247, 3442.93,
93.5818, 93.5818, 326.238), Score = c(0.56366535234262, 0.33775439984787,
0.46825476121676, 1.414092583904, 0.69101737288291, 0.87827342721894
), TransactionNo = c(47L, 47L, 6L, 3L, 3L, 57L)), .Names = c("Origin",
"IO", "Lot", "DocNumber", "OperatorID", "Month", "LineNo", "Country",
"ProduceCode", "Weight", "InvoiceValue", "InvoiceValueWeight",
"AvgWeightMonth", "SDWeightMonth", "Score", "TransactionNo"), row.names = c(NA,
6L), class = "data.frame")

Answer 1

First of all, you need to spend a lot more time preprocessing your data.
Your axes have completely different meaning and scale. Without care, the outlier detection results will be meaningless, because they are based on a meaningless distance.
For example produceCode. Are you sure, this should be part of your similarity?
Also note that I found the lofactor implementation of the R DMwR package to be really slow. Plus, it seems to be hard-wired to Euclidean distance!
Instead, I recommend using ELKI for outlier detection. First of all, it comes with a much wider choice of algorithms, secondly it is much faster than R, and third, it is very modular and flexible. For your use case, you may need to implement a custom distance function instead of using Euclidean distance.
Here's the link to the ELKI tutorial on implementing a custom distance function.