Re: [R] Checkpoints in Caret

2015-12-22 Thread Giorgio Garziano
Further, trying to be more specific about checkpoint with R, I may suggest the following readings. Look for "checkpoint models" in: http://h2o-release.s3.amazonaws.com/h2o/rel-tibshirani/8/docs-website/h2o-docs/booklets/DeepLearning_Vignette.pdf Look for "checkpointing" i

Re: [R] Checkpoints in Caret

2015-12-22 Thread Giorgio Garziano
I found some information about parallel processing in R that might be of your interest: http://topepo.github.io/caret/parallel.html http://www.vikparuchuri.com/blog/parallel-r-model-prediction-building/ https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/conferences/useR-2013/Tutorials/kuhn/user_caret_2up.pdf htt

[R] Checkpoints in Caret

2015-12-21 Thread Lorenzo Isella
Dear All, I am training a model using caret. Everything is fine, but the training will take several days. I wonder if there is the possibility of creating some checkpoints in caret so that the training of a complex model can be split up into several jobs to be executed in different days. I googled