[R] randomForest weighting of variables and count data

[Birgit Lemcke]

Hello R-user!

I am running R 2.7.0 on a Power Book (Tiger). (I am still R and  
statistics beginner)

I try to find the most important variables to divide my dataset as  
given in a categorical variable using randomForest.

I was wondering if there is the possibility in randomForest to give  
different weights to the explaining variables and additonally if it  
makes a difference using count data?

Thanks in advance

Birgit



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