Alan Lapedes
2006-Apr-16 21:14 UTC
[R] Problem getting R's decision tree for Quinlan's golf example data
Newbie question, but I've checked archives etc. Am trying to reproduce in R Quinlan's trivial example of the "golf" decision tree. The data file of 14 examples follows (read in via read.table()): Outlook Temperature Humidity Windy PlayDontPlay 1 sunny 85 85 false DontPlay 2 sunny 80 90 true DontPlay 3 overcast 83 78 false Play 4 rain 70 96 false Play 5 rain 68 80 false Play 6 rain 65 70 true DontPlay 7 overcast 64 65 true Play 8 sunny 72 95 false DontPlay 9 sunny 69 70 false Play 10 rain 75 80 false Play 11 sunny 75 70 true Play 12 overcast 72 90 true Play 13 overcast 81 75 false Play 14 rain 71 80 true DontPlay R reports no format or other trivial problems:> summary(golf)Outlook Temperature Humidity Windy PlayDontPlay overcast:4 Min. :64.0 Min. :65.0 false:8 DontPlay:5 rain :5 1st Qu.:69.2 1st Qu.:71.2 true :6 Play :9 sunny :5 Median :72.0 Median :80.0 Mean :73.6 Mean :80.3 3rd Qu.:78.8 3rd Qu.:88.8 Max. :85.0 Max. :96.0 I then try to build a decision tree:> golf.rpart <- rpart(PlayDontPlay ~ Outlook + Temperature + Humidity + Windy, method="class", data=golf)which doesn't yield a tree:> golf.rpartn= 14 node), split, n, loss, yval, (yprob) * denotes terminal node 1) root 14 5 Play (0.35714 0.64286) *> plot(golf.rpart)Error in plot.rpart(golf.rpart) : fit is not a tree, just a root Thanks, Alan