similar to: RE: new patched version of randomForest

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

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,

Dear R-devel, Last week I got several responses to my question about debugging segfaults in my code (original post below). After I changed the S_alloc() calls to Calloc()/Free(), the symptom was gone, but I was told to keep looking. So I did: o Switched to Calloc/Free. Electric Fence did not find any problem. o Put assert(index < bound); assert(index >=0); everywhere in the C routine

Dear R-devel, A user reported a strange problem with predict.randomForest in the randomForest package yesterday, and I'm baffled by it. The code at the end of the message produces the error. The problem is that, in predict.randomForest, there's a .Fortran call to "runforest". One of the arguments passed in is "countts", which is a vector of doubles. The error

Dear R-devel, I'm encountering a strange problem in a Rd file that I'm working on. In the "Value" section, I have something like: ===================== \value{ An object of class \code{randomForest}, which is a list with the following components: \item{call}{the original call to \code{randomForest}} ... For classification problem, the following are also included:

(Sorry for the cross-post--- I wasn't sure which list is more appropriate...) Hi everyone, I've run into segfaults when using my randomForest package on large dataset (e.g., 100 x 15200) and large number of trees (e.g., ntree=7000 and mtry=3000). I'm wondering if anyone can give me some hints on where to look for the problem. The randomForest package mainly consists of two things:

(Sorry for the cross-post--- I wasn't sure which list is more appropriate...) Hi everyone, I've run into segfaults when using my randomForest package on large dataset (e.g., 100 x 15200) and large number of trees (e.g., ntree=7000 and mtry=3000). I'm wondering if anyone can give me some hints on where to look for the problem. The randomForest package mainly consists of two things:

Hi all, Thanks to Prof. Ripley, Prof. Gentleman, and Simon Wood (did I miss anyone?). The problem seemed to have gone away. Everyone suggested using some malloc debugger (such as Electric Fence). All I did was following half of what BDR suggested below, i.e., changing all the S_alloc() calls to Calloc() and Free(). I didn't get to try efence, and the problem seems to have disappeared! As

Christian -- You don't provide enough information (like a call) to answer this. I suspect, though, that you may be subsetting in a way that passes randomForest no data. I'm not aware offhand of an easy way to get this error from randomForest. I tried creating some data superficially similar to yours to see whether something would break if there were only a single value in the variable

Hi all, There is now a package available on CRAN that provides an R interface to Leo Breiman's random forest classifier. Basically, random forest does the following: 1. Select ntree, the number of trees to grow, and mtry, a number no larger than number of variables. 2. For i = 1 to ntree: 3. Draw a bootstrap sample from the data. Call those not in the bootstrap sample the

Hi all, There is now a package available on CRAN that provides an R interface to Leo Breiman's random forest classifier. Basically, random forest does the following: 1. Select ntree, the number of trees to grow, and mtry, a number no larger than number of variables. 2. For i = 1 to ntree: 3. Draw a bootstrap sample from the data. Call those not in the bootstrap sample the

With the same system configuration (WinNT4 SP6 and 1.7.0), I get such a Dr Watson crash each time I try to use the Change dir... command in the File menu of Rgui.exe. I doesn't seems to happen if I do this immediately after starting R but well if I already did some computation. I don't have any problem by using directly setwd(). At 12:10 23/04/03, you wrote: >Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003

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

Dear R-devel, Inspired by Michael Li's talk at JSM, I decided to try rpvm and snow on our two linux boxes. It only took me a couple of hours of screwing around to get it working (sooner if I had RTFM). Our setup is: 2 dual PIII-866 Xeons, one with 2GB RDRAM, the other with 1.28GB RDRAM. The first machine is acting as the NIS/NFS server. both /usr and /home are exported to the second

Dear R-help, Has anyone experienced similar problem? On WinNT4(sp6), running Rgui from 1.7.0, when try to change directory to some network drive using the "File / Change dir..." menu, Rgui gets a visit by Dr. Watson. If I first change dir to a local drive, then again to a network drive, it works fine. It also works fine with setwd() from the command prompt. Best, Andy Andy I. Liaw,

Dear R-devel, I grabbed 1.7.0 beta from today. "make check" still fails at base-Ex.R. The last few lines of the output are: > lsf.str()#- how do the functions look like which I am using? Error in exists(nam <- nms[i], envir = envir, mode = mode) : F used instead of FALSE Execution halted Looks like the same problem as before, but at a different place. Mandrake Linux

Sorry for the cross-post: not sure whether it's Rterm or ESS (or something else?)... I'm running R (1.5.0 patched 2002-05-09, compiled from source on WinNT4) under ESS 5.1.21 with XEmacs 21.4.6. When I plotted a graph on the windows() device, and then use the menu in the R graphics window to print the graph, the printer selection dialog box does not show up until I go to the *R* buffer

This is interesting: The crash does not happen if I run Rgui in MDI mode. The crash seemed to only occur in SDI. Andy =========================================================== For the record: Under Rgui, using the menu "File / Channge dir..." to change to a network drive crashes rgui. The crash happens if I browse to a folder on a mapped drive. I.e., if I type in

Hi, I would like to use a random Forest model to get an idea about which variables from a dataset may have some prognostic significance in a smallish study. The default for the number of trees seems to be 500. I tried changing the default to ntree=2000 or ntree=200 and the results appear identical. Have changed mtry from mtry=5 to mtry=6 successfully. Have seen same problem on both a Windows