[R] Predict.nnet ?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Yves Gauvreau wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with predict.nnet when I try to use it. It crashes R with a
> memory access violation.

It should tell you in which DLL, which would help.

> platform Windows
> arch     x86
> os       Win32
> system   x86, Win32
> status
> major    1
> minor    1.1
> year     2000
> month    August
> day      15
> language R
> 
> I admit the data set is quite large ~ [3000, 101] and its a 3 class problem.
> I know that it works fine when there is a single target. I wonder if what
> I'm doing is wrong or if could be a bug of some kind?

Not really much there to go on, I'm afraid.  You do have the latest version
of the VR bundle?  (9.2-1: package.description("nnet")$Version will tell
you).  There was an R-related memory-management problem on a few platforms
(not Solaris, yes on Linux PPC, seen once on Linux i386, in nnet not
predict.nnet) in the immediately previous release (6.1-9, perhaps also
6.1-8).

Certainly you should be able to do this, and the scripts in the bundle
do an example with three output and predicting to a large set.
As a workaround, does predicting to a smaller set of observations help?
You can then build up the big prediction in pieces.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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