VSURF (version 1.2.0)

summary.VSURF: Summary of VSURF results

Description

This function displays a summary of VSURF results

Usage

# S3 method for VSURF
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object

An object of class VSURF, which is the result of the VSURF function.

...

Not used.

Author

Robin Genuer, Jean-Michel Poggi and Christine Tuleau-Malot

Details

This function prints the total computation time of VSURF. It also gives the number of selected variables (and the computation time) at each step of VSURF. In addition, it gives the number of cores and the type of cluster if the parallel version of VSURF was used.

References

Genuer, R. and Poggi, J.M. and Tuleau-Malot, C. (2010), Variable selection using random forests, Pattern Recognition Letters 31(14), 2225-2236

Genuer, R. and Poggi, J.M. and Tuleau-Malot, C. (2015), VSURF: An R Package for Variable Selection Using Random Forests, The R Journal 7(2):19-33

See Also

VSURF, plot.VSURF

Examples

if (FALSE) {
data(iris)
iris.vsurf <- VSURF(iris[,1:4], iris[,5], ntree = 100, nfor.thres = 20,
                    nfor.interp = 10, nfor.pred = 10)
summary(iris.vsurf)

# A more interesting example with toys data (see \code{\link{toys}})
# (a few minutes to execute)
data(toys)
toys.vsurf <- VSURF(toys$x, toys$y)
summary(toys.vsurf)}