Yes, I do know. That's why I pointed you to the reference linked from the help page. BTW, there's also an R News article describing the initial version of the package. Have you perused that? Andy
-----Original Message----- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 9:27 PM To: Liaw, Andy Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] how to use the randomForest and rpart function? It did not have a legend showing on which color is for class1, which color is for class2, etc... I've read the R-help page. It lists a lot of options, but it did not say which ones are the key parameters that people use most for improving performance... Do you know? On 3/7/06, Liaw, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: As ?plot.randomForest says, it plots error rates. In addition to overall error rates, it also plots error rates for each class. As to the options in randomForest, read about the options in the help page and the reference linked from the help page. Andy From: Michael > > When I plot the randomForest object, it shows a graph with 3 > lines, green, red and black, what's the meaning of these three lines? > > On 3/7/06, Michael < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to play around with the randomForest function for > > classification. I know its performance is great. > > > > I am currently using the default options. > > > > It has many options. > > > > How do I further tweak the options so that I can make its > performance > > even better? > > > > What are the options that are mostly used? > > > > Thanks a lot! > > > > M > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
