R help - May 2007 - How might I -remove- a tree from a random forest?

I see the function "getTree", which is very interesting. As I'm
trying to
teach myself more and more about R, and dealing with lists, it occurred to
me that it might be fun to remove (as in delete) a single tree from a
forest...say to go from 500 to 499.

I know, I know... "why?"

Why, to play, of course!

I've been doing a lot of reading on various tuning parameters, and wanted to
play with "thinning" as a demonstration project. Problem is, each
"tree" is
a different length (naturally), and when I try to set a portion (identified
by examining the getTree function) to "NULL", I get an error about
lengths
not matching up.

Wondering if there's a tool somewhere out there to do this in a
straightforward fashion, or any breadcrumbs to get me going. If this is a
"new" thing, I'll post the function when I'm done for others
to play with
it, too.

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