Hello, together I'm trying to use user defined kernel. I know that kernlab offer user defined kernel(custom kernel functions) in R. I used data spam including package kernlab. (number of variables=58 number of examples =4061) i'm user defined kernel's form, kp=function(d,e){ as=v*d bs=v*e cs=as-bs cs=as.matrix(cs) exp(-(norm(cs,"F")^2)/2) } class(kp)="kernel" It is the transformed kernel for gaussian kernel. v is the continuously changed values that are inverse of standard deviation vector about each variables. (ex: v=(0.1666667,........0.1666667)`, length(v)= 57) training set defined 60% of spam data. (preserving the proportions of the different classes.) if data's type is spam, than data`s type = 1 for train svm (else -1) m=ksvm(xtrain,ytrain,type="C-svc",kernel=kp,C=10) But, this step is not working. always Waiting for a response. So, I ask you this problem, why? number of examples are too big? Is there any other R package that can train SVMs for user defined kernel? I want to your answer. Thanks in advance! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/kernlab-s-custom-kernel-of-ksvm-freeze-tp4641393.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.