a list of presorted and formatted predictor
information:
colNames
a vector of strings containing the training column
names.
rowNames
a vector of strings containing the training row
names.
blockNum
a matrix containing all numeric predictor values.
blockFac
a matrix containing all factor predictor values.
nPredFac
the number of factor predictors.
nRow
the number of training rows.
facCard
a vector of the factor cardinalities.
signature
a list consisting of training information needed
for separate testing and prediction:
nRow
the number of training rows.
predMap
a vector mapping core predictor indices back to
their respective front-end positions.
level
a vector of strings containing the training response
factor levels.