[R] Why is rpart() so slow?

[Patrick Connolly]

On Fri, 19-Mar-2004 at 04:44PM +1300, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

|> I've had rpart running on a problem now for a couple of *days*,
|> but I'd expect a decision tree builder to run in minutes if not
|> seconds.  Why is rpart slow?  Is there anything I can do to make
|> it quicker?

Yes.  You could give us an indication of just what you're trying to
do, with what, and to what, so we would be in a position to say what
improvements could be made.



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