Hi, I am trying to use the rpart library with my own set of functions on a survival object. I get an immeadiate segmentation fault when i try calling rpart with my list of functions. I get the same problem with the logrank example from Therneau,s S-rpart library though their anova example works. Should I report this as a bug, as even if my functions are structured improperly, that should lead to an error in R (or warning) not a seg fault. If anyone has gotten this to work with survival objects i would appreciate any tips. My test function is below. Note that there is nothing for categorical cases because i am not using any caterorical variables in my test. Thanks Nicholas tst.eval<-function(y, wt, parms){ dev<- sum(residuals(coxph(y~-1))^2) list(label= sum(y[,2]), deviance=dev) } tst.split<-function(y, wt, x, parms, continuous){ xun<-sort(unique(x)) n <- nrow(y) ndev<-sum(residuals(coxph(y~-1))^2) gd<-rep(0,n-1) dir<-rep(1,n-1) if (continuous) { for(i in xun[xun<max(xun)]){ lft<-try(sum(residuals(coxph(y[x>i]~-1))^2)) rt<-try(sum(residuals(coxph(y[x<=i]~-1))^2)) gd[x==i]<-ndev-(lft+rt) #dir[x==i]<-1 } list(goodness=gd , direction=) } else{ list(goodness= , direction = ) } } tst.init<-function(y, offset, parms, wt){ browser() if (!is.null(offset)) y <- y-offset list(y=y, parms=0, numresp=2, numy=2, summary= function(yval, dev, wt, ylevel, digits ) { paste(" mean=", format(signif(yval, digits)), ", MSE=" , format(signif(dev/wt, digits)), sep='') }, text= function(yval, dev, wt, ylevel, digits, n, use.n ) { if(use.n) {paste(formatg(yval,digits),"\nn=", n,sep="")} else{paste(formatg(yval,digits))} }) } tst.lst<-list(eval=tst.eval, split=tst.split, init=tst.init) data(lung) fit1 <- rpart(Surv(time, status) ~ age + ph.karno + meal.cal,data=lung,control=rpart.control(minsplit=30, xval=0, cp=.011),method=tst.lst) -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._