Hello, I am sorry if there are already post that answers to this question but i tried to find them before making this post. I did not really find relevant posts.
I am using randomForest package for building a two class classifier. There are categorical variables and numerical variables in my data. Different categorical variables have different number of categories from 2 to 10. I am not sure about how to represent the categorical data. For example, I am using 0 and 1 for variables that have only two categories. But, i doubt, the program is analysing the values as numerical. Do you have any idea how can i use the c*ategorical variables for building a two class classifier.* I am using a factor consisting of 0 and 1 for the classification target. Thank you for your ideas. ----- abhishek -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Using-caegorical-variables-in-package-randomForest-tp4468923p4468923.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
