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Dear R-users, Recently, I am facing some problems when converting mlbench data into matrix format. library(mlbench) data(BostonHousing) X<- BostonHousing[,1:13] y<-BostonHousing[,14] I want to convert X and y into matrix form. I am getting these obvious errors... > t(X)%*%y Error in t(X) %*% y : requires numeric/complex matrix/vector arguments > t(as.matrix(X))%*%(as.matrix(y))

This question concerns rpart's facility for user-defined functions that accomplish splitting. I was interested in modifying the code so that in each terminal node, a linear regression is fit to the data. It seems that from the allowable inputs in the user-defined functions, that this may not be possible, since they have the form: function(y, wt, parms) (in the case of the

Hi, I am having problems passing arguments to method="gbm" using the train() function. I would like to train gbm using the laplace distribution or the quantile distribution. here is the code I used and the error: gbm.test <- train(x.enet, y.matrix[,7], method="gbm", distribution=list(name="quantile",alpha=0.5), verbose=FALSE,

> >  Dear moderators, Please help me encode the program instructed by follows. Thank u! Apply the methods introduced in Sections 4.2.1 and 4.2.2, say the > rank-based variable selection and BIC criterions, to the Boston housing > data. >  The Boston housing data contains 506 observations, and is publicly available in the R package mlbench (dataset “BostonHousing”).  The

Hello, Is the first time I am using SNOW package and I am trying to tune the cost parameter for a linear SVM, where the cost (variable cost1) takes 10 values between 0.5 and 30. I have a large dataset and a pc which is not very powerful, so I need to tune the parameters using both CPUs of the pc. Somehow I cannot manage to do it. It seems that both CPUs are fitting the model for the same values

Hello, I'm currently dealing with a rather strange problem when using the function "stepAIC" ("MASS" package). The setting is the following: From model learning data sets ("learndata"), I want to be able to build prediction functions (in order to save them in a file for further use). This is done by the function "pred.function" (see below). Therein,

Cubist is a rule-based machine learning model for regression. Parts of the Cubist model are described in: Quinlan. Learning with continuous classes. Proceedings of the 5th Australian Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence (1992) pp. 343-348 Quinlan. Combining instance-based and model-based learning. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Machine Learning

Cubist is a rule-based machine learning model for regression. Parts of the Cubist model are described in: Quinlan. Learning with continuous classes. Proceedings of the 5th Australian Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence (1992) pp. 343-348 Quinlan. Combining instance-based and model-based learning. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Machine Learning