R help - Dec 2005 - e1071::SVM calculate distance to separating hyperplane

predict.svm() can give you the decision values which are the distances
you are looking for (up to a scaling constant).

Regards,
David
>Hi,
>I know this question has been posed before, but I didnt find the answer in
>the R-help archive, so please accept my sincere apologies for being
>repetitive:
>How can one (elegantly) calculate the distance between data points (in the
>transformed space, I suppose) and the hyperplane that separates the 2
>categories when using svm() from the e1071 library?
>thanks a lot,
>Hans
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Hi,
I know this question has been posed before, but I didnt find the answer in
the R-help archive, so please accept my sincere apologies for being
repetitive:
How can one (elegantly) calculate the distance between data points (in the
transformed space, I suppose) and the hyperplane that separates the 2
categories when using svm() from the e1071 library?

thanks a lot,
Hans