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Hi, I have a question about the parameter C (cost) in svm function in e1071. I thought larger C is prone to overfitting than smaller C, and hence leads to more support vectors. However, using the Wisconsin breast cancer example on the link: http://planatscher.net/svmtut/svmtut.html I found that the largest cost have fewest support vectors, which is contrary to what I think. please see the scripts