Dear R's I'm trying to use specific rather than random cross-validation groups in mvpart.
The man page says: xval Number of cross-validations or vector defining cross-validation groups. And I found this reply to the list by Terry Therneau from 2006 The rpart function allows one to give the cross-validation groups explicitly. So if the number of observations was 10, you could use > rpart( y ~ x1 + x2, data=mydata, xval=c(1,1,2,2,3,3,1,3,2,1)) which causes observations 1,2,7, and 10 to be left out of the first xval sample, 3,4, and 9 out of the second, etc. Terry Therneau I can't see how this string of values, c(1,1,2,2,3,3,1,3,2,1), codes for observations 1,2,7,10 being left out of the 1st and so on. Can anyone fill me in please? Thanks, andydol...@gmail.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.