Hi all, I am very new to R (only two days of studies). I know a little bit of statistical learning and looking for an implementation of CART and random forest and therefore I am now studying R. I tested with rpart and randomForest package, they are quite good. However, I need a classification tree and for each training data, there is different loss. (i.e. the loss function is not purely 0-1, say, c_i > 0 for each training data) I read the document of randomForest and found that there are no such parameter, and then I move to rpart package to check if I can do it and perform the bagging process by myself.
I found that there is a "weights" parameter for rpart. Is it the one that I can use and it will ultimately modify the Gini / Cross-entropy calculation during the learning process? If it is yes, and I want to do the bagging process by myself without referencing to randomForest package, is there any meta-algorithm package available for this purpose? Thank you very much. Best regards, WONG Hang. P.S. I have tested party package also. But it is not quite suitable for me and I face some errors on it. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.