Rborist (version 0.3-7)

Rborist: Rapid Decision Tree Construction and Evaluation

Description

Legacy entry for accelerated implementation of the Random Forest (trademarked name) algorithm. Calls the suggested entry, rfArb.

Usage

# S3 method for default
Rborist (x,
              y,
              ...)

Value

an object of class rfArb, as documented in command of the same name.

Arguments

x

the design matrix expressed as a PreFormat object, as a data.frame object with numeric and/or factor columns or as a numeric matrix.

y

the response (outcome) vector, either numerical or categorical. Row count must conform with x.

...

specific to rfArb.

Author

Mark Seligman at Suiji.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
  # Regression example:
  nRow <- 5000
  x <- data.frame(replicate(6, rnorm(nRow)))
  y <- with(x, X1^2 + sin(X2) + X3 * X4) # courtesy of S. Welling.

  # Classification example:
  data(iris)

  # Generic invocation:
  rb <- Rborist(x, y)
}