[R] multivariate splits

[Liaw, Andy]

From: Gavin Simpson
> 
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 08:12 -0700, Scott Rollins wrote:
> > Glenn De'ath published a paper in 'Ecology' several years ago and 
> > included S-Plus functions in the archives. I haven't looked at the 
> > files, so I'm not sure what modifications would be necessary for R.
> > 
> > De'ath, G. 2002. Multivariate regression trees: a new technique for 
> > modeling species--environment relationships. Ecology 83:1105-1117.
> > 
> > Archives: http://www.esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E083/017/
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> Glenn's code is in package mvpart on CRAN.
> 
> Not sure if the OP wanted this or not, but the multivariate 
> nature of mvpart is in allowing multivariate responses, 
> common in ecological data analysis. The fitting is still done 
> using rpart (actually a modified version of rpart to allow 
> for the multivariate response).
> 
> Gavin

The OP's reply to my follow-up to Torsten's message seems to indicate that
he has univariate response.  He wants something that can split on linear
combinations of predictors, as described in the CART book, I believe.  What
I thought he wanted was something that finds some optimal subset of
predictors to split each node.

I am not aware of any open source implementations of tree algorithms that
does linear combination splits, perhaps others know better.  I suppose
Torsten's double bagging (in the ipred package) sort of does that, but in an
ensemble rather than a single tree.

Andy

 
> > 
> > 
> > > Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:17:40 +0200
> > > From: " B?lint Cz?cz " <elatine at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: [R] multivariate splits
> > > To: r-help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
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> > > Dear R users!
> > > 
> > > Does someone know about any algorithms / packages in R, 
> that perform 
> > > classification / regression / decision trees using multivariate 
> > > splits?
> > > 
> > > I have done some research, but I found nothing. Packages 
> "tree" and 
> > > "rpart" seem only to be able to do CART with univariate splits.
> > > 
> > > Thank you for your help!
> > > 
> > > B?lint
> > > 
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