Re: [R] Question about random Forest function in R

2012-05-29 Thread Liu, Weifeng Aaron
This is a well-known limitation. You have to group categorical attributes together to work around. -- Weifeng (aaron) liu  |  retail systems pricing  |  sr research scientist -Original Message- From: r-h

Re: [R] Question about random Forest function in R

2012-05-29 Thread Liaw, Andy
Hi Kelly, The function has a limitation that it cannot handle any column in your "x" that is a categorical variable with more than 32 categories. One possibility is to see if you can "bin" some of the categories into one to get below 32 categories. Andy -Original Message- From: r-hel