Brian, This is all outlined in the package documentation. The final model is fit automatically. For example, using 'verboseIter' provides details. From ?train
> knnFit1 <- train(TrainData, TrainClasses, + method = "knn", + preProcess = c("center", "scale"), + tuneLength = 10, + trControl = trainControl(method = "cv", verboseIter = TRUE)) + Fold01: k= 5 - Fold01: k= 5 + Fold01: k= 7 - Fold01: k= 7 + Fold01: k= 9 - Fold01: k= 9 + Fold01: k=11 - Fold01: k=11 <snip> + Fold10: k=17 - Fold10: k=17 + Fold10: k=19 - Fold10: k=19 + Fold10: k=21 - Fold10: k=21 + Fold10: k=23 - Fold10: k=23 Aggregating results Selecting tuning parameters Fitting model on full training set Max On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Brian Feeny <bfe...@mac.com> wrote: > > I am used to packages like e1071 where you have a tune step and then pass > your tunings to train. > > It seems with caret, tuning and training are both handled by train. > > I am using train and trainControl to find my hyper parameters like so: > > MyTrainControl=trainControl( > method = "cv", > number=5, > returnResamp = "all", > classProbs = TRUE > ) > > rbfSVM <- train(label~., data = trainset, > method="svmRadial", > tuneGrid = > expand.grid(.sigma=c(0.0118),.C=c(8,16,32,64,128)), > trControl=MyTrainControl, > fit = FALSE > ) > > Once this returns my ideal parameters, in this case Cost of 64, do I > simply just re-run the whole process again, passing a grid only containing > the specific parameters? like so? > > > rbfSVM <- train(label~., data = trainset, > method="svmRadial", > tuneGrid = expand.grid(.sigma=0.0118,.C=64), > trControl=MyTrainControl, > fit = FALSE > ) > > This is what I have been doing but I am new to caret and want to make sure > I am doing this correctly. > > Brian > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Max [[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.