'weights' should be a column in your 'data': that is the standard way to
specify weights to a model-fitting function.
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Xavier Robin wrote:
I can't get rpart accept case weights defined inside a function.
It keeps using the copy defined in the "global" environment (if they exists)
instead of the function-defined ones.
Here is what I do:
test.function <- function (formula, data) {
weights <- rep(.1, 100)
rpart(formula, data, weights)
}
test.function(x~y, data)
And I get an error:
Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras,
extranames, : invalid type (closure) for variable '(weights)'
If I define weights in the global environment, it uses this instead of the
function-defined one (which can be verified by .Last.value$frame$wt[1]: it
should equal sum(weights) and actually equals the sum of global weights, not
the function one).
I tried to pass a named argument (weights=weights), using other names (w,
foo, ...), or both, but still it doesn't work. I found nothing in rpart doc
about that behaviour...
It was tested on R 2.7.0 (Windows XP) and R 2.5.1 (Linux kernel 2.6.9).
For the moment, the only workaround I found is to use/modify the global
weights using <<- (not very satisfying).
What did I wrong? And what should I do to get it work (i.e. using the copy of
weights defined inside the function)?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Xavier Robin
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