Re: [R] randomForest speed improvements

2011-01-05 Thread Liaw, Andy
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:30 PM > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: Re: [R] randomForest speed improvements > > > > > > Andy, > > > > Thanks for the reply. I had no idea I could combine them > > back ... that > >

Re: [R] randomForest speed improvements

2011-01-05 Thread Liaw, Andy
egrading. Andy > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of apresley > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:30 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] randomForest speed improvements > > > Andy, &

Re: [R] randomForest speed improvements

2011-01-04 Thread apresley
Andy, Thanks for the reply. I had no idea I could combine them back ... that actually will work pretty well. We can have several "worker threads" load up the RF's on different machines and/or cores, and then re-assemble them. RMPI might be an option down the road, but would be a bit of overhea

Re: [R] randomForest speed improvements

2011-01-04 Thread Liaw, Andy
ng only certain quantiles. The current RF code doesn't do this. Andy > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of apresley > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 6:28 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: R

Re: [R] randomForest speed improvements

2011-01-03 Thread apresley
I haven't tried changing the mtry or ntree at all ... though I suppose with only 6 variables, and tens-of-thousands of rows, we can probably do less than 500 tree's (the default?). Although tossing the forest does speed things up a bit, seems to be about 15 - 20% faster in some cases, I need to k

Re: [R] randomForest speed improvements

2011-01-03 Thread Jonathan P Daily
ord... imbue it." - Jubal Early, Firefly r-help-boun...@r-project.org wrote on 01/03/2011 02:59:29 PM: > [image removed] > > [R] randomForest speed improvements > > apresley > > to: > > r-help > > 01/03/2011 03:03 PM > > Sent by: > > r-help

[R] randomForest speed improvements

2011-01-03 Thread apresley
Hi there, We're trying to use randomForest to do some predictions. The test-harness for our code is pretty straightforward: library ('randomForest'); data202 <- read.csv ("random.csv", header=TRUE); x<- data202[1:5,1:6]; y<- data202[1:5,8]; y<- y[,drop=TRUE]; x2 <- data202[