Ding! We have a winner :) Thanks Max, that's exactly the problem. I don't know how I missed that.
I'm looking for different modeling functions to try for best predictive results. An SVM isn't bad, but I'm looking for more. The RVM sounded interesting, but I guess it won't work for my application. THANK YOU! -N On 8/19/09 3:52 PM, Max Kuhn wrote: > I think that the issue is that this version of rvm is only for > regression (and, if I understood correctly, you are passing class > labels). > > Max > > > > On Aug 19, 2009, at 6:36 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > wrote: > >> >> On Aug 19, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Noah Silverman wrote: >> >>> Thanks David, >>> >>> Then, do you have any clue why RVM or LSSVM would be generating an >>> error? >> >> No. >>> >>> My original post was: >>> >>> >>> "When running RVM or LSSVM on the exact same data as the SVM{e1071}, >>> I get an error that I don't understand: >>> Error in .local(x, ...) : kernel must inherit from class 'kernel' " >>> >>> Any suggestions? >> >> My suggestion would be to include more information. Expecting people >> to figure out where the error arose when they have not been given: a) >> the code that produced the error and b) a good-faith effort at a >> description of the data supplied seems an exercise in futility. >> >> >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> >>> On 8/19/09 3:17 PM, David Winsemius wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Aug 19, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Noah Silverman wrote: >>>> >>>>> Steve, >>>>> >>>>> Not sure what to do with this. >>>>> >>>>> I have a data.frame. Don't know how to convert it to a list. >>>> >>>> A data.frame is a list. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Does anybody else have any input on this? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 8/19/09 12:17 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: >>>>>>> Steve, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> That makes sense, except that x is a data.frame with about 70 >>>>>>> columns. So I don't see how it would convert to a list. >>>>>> >>>>>> Yeah ... not sure if that's what happening (R class >>>>>> relationships/testing is still a bit of a mystery to me), but see: >>>>>> >>>>>> R> df <- data.frame(a=1:10,b=1:10) >>>>>> R> is(df) >>>>>> [1] "data.frame" "list" "oldClass" "mpinput" "vector" >>>>>> >>>>>> But >>>>>> >>>>>> R> is(df, 'list') >>>>>> [1] FALSE >>>>>> >>>>>> So, in short, I don't know if that's what's happening ... did it fix >>>>>> your problem, tho? >>>>>> >>>>>> -steve >>>> >>>> David Winsemius, MD >>>> Heritage Laboratories >>>> West Hartford, CT >>>> >> >> David Winsemius, MD >> Heritage Laboratories >> West Hartford, CT >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. [[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.