[R] memory usage with party::cforest

Is there a way to shrink the size of RandomForest-class (an S4 object), so that it requires less memory during run-time and less disk space for serialization? On my system the data slot is about 2GB, which is causing problems, and I'd like to see whether predict() works without it. # example with

[R] old Windows binary for GBM package

Is there a place to an old version (GBM 1.6 or 2.0) of the Windows 64-bit binary for the GBM package? In GBM 2.1, CV does not work on any of my data sets, so I reported it to https://code.google.com/p/gradientboostedmodels/ . However, I would like to soon continue to use GBM for a project, and I p

Re: [R] install.packages problem

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, eric wrote: > I'm trying to install the rdatamarket package. I did an > install.packages('rdatamarket') command but got an error about half way > through the install as follows: > > * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... > checking for curl-config... no > Cannot