Hi netters,

I want to learn a decision tree from a series of instances (learning data). The packages tree or rpart can do this quite well, but the scoring functions (splitting criteria) are fixed in these packages, like gini or something. However, I'm going to use another scoring function. At first I wanna modify the R code of tree or rpart and put my own scoring function in. But it seems that tree and rpart perform the splitting procedure by calling external C functions, which I have no access to. So do I have to write R code from scratch to build the tree with my own scoring functions? It's a really tough task. Or r there other R packages that can do similar things with more flexible and extensible code?

Thanks a lot!

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