Bill, A couple more points:
1. Please use an informative subject line. I'd deleted the original post w/o reading if I didn't catch Marc's reply. 2. Are you sure you have "bivariate" response? To me "bivariate" means two variables, and randomForest surely does not handle that (at least for now). Andy From: Marc Schwartz > > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 12:05 -0500, Bill Vorias wrote: > > I had a question about Random Forests. I have a text file with 10 > > dichotomous variables and a bivariate response vector. I > read this file > > into R as a data frame, and then used the command > "randomForest(Response ~., > > dataset, etc.." where "Response" is the column header of > the response > > variable and "dataset" is the name of the data frame. I > get an error that > > says "Response" not found. I was looking at the Iris data > example in the R > > help files, and it seems like this is exactly what they > did. Do you have > > any suggestions? Thanks. > > > R you sure that you have correctly specified the column and data frame > names in the call to randomForest()? > > Be sure to check for typos, including capitalization. > > You can use: > > ls() > > to check for the current objects in your working environment > and you can > then use: > > str(YourDataFrame) > > or > > names(YourDataFrame) > > to display information about the detailed structure and/or > column names, > respectively, in the data frame that you created from the > imported data. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
