This is just one single decision tree, not forest.  If you're asking what 
package I use to construct one single tree, it's 'rpart'. 


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>From: Changbin Du <changb...@gmail.com>
>To: "Shi, Tao" <shida...@yahoo.com>
>Cc: r-help@r-project.org
>Sent: Fri, May 14, 2010 12:35:20 PM
>Subject: Re: [R] "rpart": how to use each variable only once?
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>>is this random decision tree, I dont know is there any package can run it.  
>>If you know, please let me know.
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>On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Shi, Tao <shida...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Hi list,
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>>>>Is there a way in "rpart" to force the variables only used once when doing 
>>>>the splits?
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>>>>This is how the question came about.  Often time, the tree constructed uses 
>>>>the same variable (say X1) for the first and second splits, for example.  
>>>>However, due to practical reason, the researcher doesn't like this.  The 
>>>>prefer to see the second split using other variables (say X2).  Therefore 
>>>>the question.  I understand the performance will suffer.  However if there 
>>>>is a performance improvement for the tree with X1 as 1st split and X2 as 
>>>>2nd split comparing the tree with one single split using X1, I guess it's 
>>>>still a reasonable thing to do, right?
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>>>>Many thanks!
>>
>>>>...Tao
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>Sincerely,
>Changbin 
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