caret (version 4.31)

predict.knn3: Predictions from k-Nearest Neighbors

Description

Predict the class of a new observation based on k-NN.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'knn3':
predict(object, newdata, type=c("prob", "class"), ...)

Arguments

object
object of class knn3.
newdata
a data frame of new observations.
type
return either the predicted class or the the proportion of the votes for the winning class.
...
additional arguments.

Value

  • Either the predicted class or the the proportion of the votes for each class.

Details

This function is a method for the generic function predict for class knn3. For the details see knn3. This is essentially a copy of predict.ipredknn.