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Dear R users, I've just released a new version of randomForest (available on CRAN now). This version contained quite a number of new features and bug fixes, compared to version prior to 4.0-x (and few more since 4.0-1). For those not familiar with randomForest, it's an ensemble classifier/regression tool. Please see http://www.math.usu.edu/~adele/forests/ for more detailed information,

Dear R users, I've just released a new version of randomForest (available on CRAN now). This version contained quite a number of new features and bug fixes, compared to version prior to 4.0-x (and few more since 4.0-1). For those not familiar with randomForest, it's an ensemble classifier/regression tool. Please see http://www.math.usu.edu/~adele/forests/ for more detailed information,

Hi I am new to R so I apologize if this is trivial. I am trying to predict the resistance or susceptibility of my sequences to a certain drug with a randomForest function from a file with amino acids on each of the positions in the protein. I ran the following: > library(randomForest) > > path <- "C:\\..." > path2 <- "..." > name <-

Hi everyone, I have another "Random Forest" package question: - my (presumably incorrect) understanding of the varImpPlot is that it should plot the "% increase in MSE" and "IncNodePurity" exactly as can be found from the "importance" section of the model results. - However, the plot does not, in fact, match the "importance"

I have a question about predictor importances in randomForest. Once I've run randomForest and got my object, I get their importances: rfresult$importance I also get the "standard errors" of the permutation-based importance measure: rfresult$importanceSD I have 2 questions: 1. Because I am dealing with regressions, I am getting an importance object (rfresult$importance) with two

"classwt" in the current version of the randomForest package doesn't work too well. (It's what was in version 3.x of the original Fortran code by Breiman and Cutler, not the one in the new Fortran code.) I'd advise against using it. "sampsize" and "strata" can be use in conjunction. If "strata" is not specified, the class labels will be used.

Hello, I am using the R randomForest package to classify variable stars. I have a training set of 1755 stars described by (too) many variables. Some of these variables are highly correlated. I believe that I understand how randomForest works and how the variable importance are evaluated (through variable permutations). Here are my questions. 1) variable importance error? Is there any ways

I'm having trouble calling randomForest::partialPlot programmatically. It tries to use name of the (R) variable as the data column name. Example: library(randomForest) iris.rf <- randomForest(Species ~ ., data=iris, importance=TRUE, proximity=TRUE) partialPlot(iris.rf, iris, Sepal.Width) # works partialPlot(iris.rf, iris, "Sepal.Width") # works (function(var.name)

All, I'm trying to set up a function which calls the partialPlot function but am getting an error that I can't seem to solve. Here's a simplified version of the function and error... > pplot <- function(rf,pred.var){partialPlot(x=rf,pred.data=acoust,x.var=pred.var)} > > attach(acoust) > acoust.rf <-

A new version of the randomForest package is now available on CRAN. The DESCRIPTION is: Package: randomForest Title: Breiman's random forest for classification and regression Version: 3.4-1 Depends: R (>= 1.5.0) Author: Fortran original by Leo Breiman and Adele Cutler, R port by Andy Liaw and Matthew Wiener. Description: Classification and regression based on a forest of trees using

The `1' and `2' columns are the error rates within those classes. E.g., the last row of the `1' column should correspond to the class.error for "-", and the last row of the `2' column to the class.error for "+". (I would have thought that that should be fairly obvious, but I guess not. It mimics what Breiman and Cutler's Fortran code does.) I suspect

Hi everybody, I used randomForest to regress invertebrates abundances in least impaired river reaches from some environmental parameters. Then I used these models to predict invertebrates abundances in impaired reaches. Now I would like to model the deviation (observation - prediction) with a set of chemical parameters to see if the deviations from predictions could be explained with water

When mtry is equal to total number of features, you just get regular bagging (in the R package -- Breiman & Cutler's Fortran code samples variable with replacement, so you can't do bagging with that). There are cases when bagging will do better than random feature selection (i.e., RF), even in simulated data, but I'd say not very often. HTH, Andy From: Arne.Muller at

Greg, Two thoughts: 1. It might be possible that 'vars' is a reserved word of sorts and if you change the name of your vector RF might be happier 2. A way that works for me is to call importance as follows: sel.imp <- importance(sel.rf, class=NULL, scale=TRUE, type=NULL) and then use the 'names' of the imp data frame to be absolutely clear to RF you are talking about the

Hello, I am running randomForest models on a number of species. I would like to be able to automate the printing of dependence plots for the most important variables in each model, but I am unable to figure out how to enter the variable names into my code. I had originally thought to extract them from the $importance matrix after sorting by metric (e.g. %IncMSE), but the importance matrix is n

Hi I am having a problem using varImpPlot in randomForest. I get the error message "Error in plot.window(xlim = xlim, ylim = ylim, log = "") : need finite 'xlim' values" When print $importance, several variables have NaN under %IncMSE. There are no NaNs in the original data. Can someone help me figure out what is happening here? Thanks! [[alternative HTML

Hello all, I have become somewhat confused with options available for dealing with a highly unbalanced data set (10000 in one class, 50 in the other). As a summary I am unsure: a) if I am perform the two class weighting methods properly, b) if the data are too unbalanced and that this type of analysis is appropriate and c) if there is any interaction between the weighting for class imbalances

Dear R Group I had an observation that in some cases, when I use the randomForest model to create partialPlot in R using the package "randomForest" the y-axis displays values that are more than -1! It is a classification problem that i was trying to address. Any insights as to how the y axis can display value more than -1 for some variables? Am i missing something! Thanks Regards

Hi, I'm trying to make a partial plot with package randomForest in R. After I perform my random forest object I type partialPlot(data.rforest, pred.data=act2, x.var=centroid, "C") where data.rforest is my randomforest object, act2 is the original dataset, centroid is one of the predictor and C is one of the classes in my response variable. Whatever predictor or response class I

Hi all, I have a dataset where each point is assigned to a class A, B, C, or D. Each point is also assigned to a study site. Each study site is coded with a number ranging between 1-100. This information is stored in the vector studySites. I want to run randomForests using stratified sampling, so I chose the option strata = factor(studySites) But I am not sure how to control the number of