The way the trees are structured in randomForest, there's no way to stop tree growth by depth (what you called level).
(If anyone has ideas, I'm all ears.) Andy From: Anirudh Kondaveeti > > Hi all! > > The randomForest in R enables us to prune the trees using the nodesize > feature where we can stop splitting a node if it contains > less than the > specified no.of of records/entities at that node. > > However is there a way to stop the tree growing after a > specified number of > levels. To be more clear on what I mean by a level. Level 0 > is the parent > node, Level 1 has 2 daughter nodes, Level 2 has 4 daughter > nodes, Level 3 > has 8 daughter nodes etc. > > Thanks in advance! > > Anirudh Kondaveeti > ---------------------------- > > [[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. > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachme...{{dropped:12}} ______________________________________________ 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.
