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glmnetUtils (version 1.0.2)

glmnet: Formula interface for elastic net modelling with glmnet

Description

Formula interface for elastic net modelling with glmnet

Usage

glmnet(x, ...)

# S3 method for default glmnet(x, ...)

# S3 method for formula glmnet(formula, data, alpha = 1, ..., weights = NULL, offset = NULL, subset = NULL, na.action = getOption("na.action"), drop.unused.levels = FALSE, xlev = NULL, sparse = FALSE, use.model.frame = FALSE)

# S3 method for glmnet.formula predict(object, newdata, offset = NULL, na.action = na.pass, ...)

# S3 method for glmnet.formula coef(object, ...)

# S3 method for glmnet.formula print(x, digits = max(3, getOption("digits") - 3), print.deviance.ratios = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

For the default method, a matrix of predictor variables.

...

For glmnet.formula and glmnet.default, other arguments to be passed to glmnet::glmnet; for the predict and coef methods, arguments to be passed to their counterparts in package glmnet.

formula

A model formula; interaction terms are allowed and will be expanded per the usual rules for linear models.

data

A data frame or matrix containing the variables in the formula.

alpha

The elastic net mixing parameter. See glmnet::glmnet for more details.

weights

An optional vector of case weights to be used in the fitting process. If missing, defaults to an unweighted fit.

offset

An optional vector of offsets, an a priori known component to be included in the linear predictor.

subset

An optional vector specifying the subset of observations to be used to fit the model.

na.action

A function which indicates what should happen when the data contains missing values. For the predict method, na.action = na.pass will predict missing values with NA; na.omit or na.exclude will drop them.

drop.unused.levels

Should factors have unused levels dropped? Defaults to FALSE.

xlev

A named list of character vectors giving the full set of levels to be assumed for each factor.

sparse

Should the model matrix be in sparse format? This can save memory when dealing with many factor variables, each with many levels (but see the warning below).

use.model.frame

Should the base model.frame function be used when constructing the model matrix? This is the standard method that most R modelling functions use, but has some disadvantages. The default is to avoid model.frame and construct the model matrix term-by-term; see discussion.

object

For the predict and coef methods, an object of class glmnet.formula.

newdata

For the predict method, a data frame containing the observations for which to calculate predictions.

digits

Significant digits in printed output

print.deviance.ratios

Whether to print the table of deviance ratios, as per glmnet:::print.glmnet

Value

For glmnet.formula, an object of class glmnet.formula. This is basically the same object created by glmnet::glmnet, but with extra components to allow formula usage.

Details

The glmnet function in this package is an S3 generic with a formula and a default method. The former calls the latter, and the latter is simply a direct call to the glmnet function in package glmnet. All the arguments to glmnet::glmnet are (or should be) supported.

The code works in a similar manner to lm, glm and other modelling functions. The arguments are used to generate a model frame, which is a data frame augmented with information about the roles the columns play in fitting the model. This is then turned into a model matrix and a response vector, which are passed to glmnet::glmnet along with any arguments in .... If sparse is TRUE, then Matrix::sparse.model.matrix is used instead of stats::model.matrix to create the model matrix.

The predict and coef methods are wrappers for the corresponding methods in the glmnet package. The former constructs a predictor model matrix from its newdata argument and passes that as the newx argument to glmnet:::predict.glmnet.

See Also

glmnet::glmnet, glmnet:::predict.glmnet, glmnet:::coef.glmnet, model.frame, model.matrix

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
glmnet(mpg ~ ., data=mtcars)

glmnet(Species ~ ., data=iris, family="multinomial")

# }
# NOT RUN {
# Leukemia example dataset from Trevor Hastie's website
download.file("http://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/glmnet/glmnetData/Leukemia.RData",
              "Leukemia.RData")
load("Leukemia.Rdata")
leuk <- do.call(data.frame, Leukemia)
glmnet(y ~ ., leuk, family="binomial")
# }

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