similar to: To get more digits in precision of predict function of randomForests

Hi, I am trying to run randomForests on a datasets of size 500000X650 and R pops up memory allocation error. Are there any better ways to deal with large datasets in R, for example, Splus had something like bigData library. Thank you, Nagu

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

Hi, Since I've had no replies on my previous post about my problem I am posting it again in the hope someone notice it. The problem is that the randomForest function doesn't take datasets which has instances only containing a subset of all the classes. So the dataset with instances that either belong to class "a" or "b" from the levels "a", "b" and

Gracias Carlos y Javier, ntrees es el nº de árboles y treesize sus respectivos tamaños (nº de nodos) ntree: Number of trees to grow. This should not be set to too small ...... treesize: Size of trees (number of nodes) in and ensemble. Puse 1000 árboles (ntree=1000), si, pero la función treesize te da el nº de nodos: treesize(RFfit, terminal=TRUE) me da un vector de 1000 elementos (uno

Dear mailinglist members, I was wondering if there was a way to re-evaluate the instances of a tree (in the forest) again after I have manually changed a splitpoint (or split variable) of a decision node. Here's an illustration: library("randomForest") forest.rf <- randomForest(formula = Species ~ ., data = iris, do.trace = TRUE, ntree = 3, mtry = 2, norm.votes = FALSE) # I am

Dear R Users, I'm using the randomForest package and would like to generate partial dependence plots, one after another, for a variety of variables: m <- randomForest( s, ... ) varnames <- c( "var1", "var2", "var3", "var4" ) # var1..4 are all in data frame s for( v in varnames ) { partialPlot( x=m, pred.data=s, x.var=v ) } ...but this

Si, Carlos. Yo hago lo mismo, pero esos mismos numeritos salen enormes. > treesize(RFfit) [1] 4304 4302 4311 4319 4343 4298 4298 4311 4349 4327 4331 4317 4294 4321 4283 4362 [17] 4300 4330 4266 4331 4308 4352 4294 4315 4372 4349 4331 4347 4329 4348 4298 4335 [33] 4346 4396 4345 4313 4293 4276 4353 4272 4304 4325 4317 4336 4308 4351 4374 4324 [49] 4386 4359 4311 4346 4300

Hi, I'm experimenting with random forests and want to perform a binary classification task. I've tried some of the sample codes in the help files and things run, but I get a message to the effect 'you don't have very many unique values in the target - are you sure you want to do regression?' (sorry, don't know exact message but r is busy now so can't check). In

I've been training randomForest models on 7 million rows of data (41 features). Here's an example call: myModel <- randomForest(RESPONSE~., data=mydata, ntree=50, maxnodes=30) I thought surely with only 50 trees and 30 terminal nodes that the memory footprint of "myModel" would be small. But it's 65 megs in a dump file. The object seems to be holding all sorts of

Hello, When I plot or look at the error rate vector for a random forest (rf$err.rate) it looks like a descending function except for a few first points of the vector with error rates values lower(sometimes much lower) than the general level of error rates for a forest with such number of trees when the error rates stop descending. Does it mean that there is a tree(s) (that is built the first in

Has anyone sucessfully used the maxnodes feature in randomForest? I tried setting it, but when it is non-NULL I always get back a forest in which all trees have size 1. I am using a continuous response (regression). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Muchas gracias Carlos, como siempre. Es raro que se me pasase. En su momento miré todos los argumentos del RF, como hago siempre, pero ese lo había olvidado. La verdad es que funcionaba estupendamente, pero me parecía extraño. Aunque dado que los RF no sobreajustan, no hay problema con que sus árboles sean todo lo grandes que quieras. Lo he testado con una base de datos externa y explica

Buenas Tengo en un string guardado lo siguiente: > parametros [1] "ntree=10" "ntree=30" "ntree=50" "ntree=100" "ntree=200" Con un bucle for quiero ir metiendolo en el modelo, pero no se muy bien como hacerlo, ya que con deparse no me funciona, con get tampoco (obvio, no es un objeto), y no se muy bien como hacerlo de manera dinamica

Hello everybody, I'm testing the randomForest package in order to do some simulations and I get some trouble with the prediction of new values. The random forest computation is fine but each time I try to predict values with the newly created object, I get an error message. I thought I was because NA values in the dataframe, but I cleaned them and still got the same error. What am I

You need to give us more details, like how you call randomForest, versions of the package and R itself, etc. Also, see if this helps you: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/32918.html Andy From: Eleni Rapsomaniki > > Dear all, > > I am trying to train a randomForest using all my control data > (12,000 cases, ~ 20 explanatory variables, 2 classes). > Because

Guys, I used Random Forest with a couple of data sets I had to predict for binary response. In all the cases, the AUC of the training set is coming to be 1. Is this always the case with random forests? Can someone please clarify this? I have given a simple example, first using logistic regression and then using random forests to explain the problem. AUC of the random forest is coming out to be

Hi, I need help with the randomForest prediction. i run the folowing code: > iris.rf <- randomForest(Species ~ ., data=iris, > importance=TRUE,keep.forest=TRUE, proximity=TRUE) > pr<-predict(iris.rf,iris,predict.all=T) > iris.rf$votes[53,] setosa versicolor virginica 0.0000000 0.8074866 0.1925134 > table(pr$individual[53,])/500 versicolor virginica 0.928

Hi, I get the following error when I try to predict the probabilities of a test sample: Error in predict.randomForest(fit.EBA.OM.rf.50, x.OM, type = "prob") : New factor levels not present in the training data I have about 630 predictor variables in the dataset x.OM (25 factor variables and the remaining are continuous variables). Any ideas on how to trace it? Thank you, Nagu

Hi, I'm trying to extract the rules from every tree in the random forest model that I've created. I've used randomForest2Rules function from "rattle" package however I get an error "Error in if (var.class == "character" | var.class == "factor") { : argument is of length zero" Sample code: library(rattle) library(randomForest) iris.10tree

I have a data.frame with a series of variables tagged to a binary response ('present'/'absent'). I am trying to use randomForest to predict present/absent in a second dataset. After a lot a fiddling (using two data frames, making sure data types are the same, lots of testing with data that works such as data(iris)) I've settled on combining all my data into one data.frame