[R] randomForest get tree

[Liaw, Andy]

Graphing:  Not really.  You might do somw work and get Rgraphviz to
produce the tree, but I'm not sure how useful that is.

Interpretation:  You can read the tree just like any other decision
trees.  However, remember that the splits are chosen with some
randomness, so I'm not sure how much trust I would place on any
particular tree.  Breiman did not design random forests so that the
trees can be interpreted the usual way.

Andy 

From: helen.mills at yale.edu
 
> All,
> What purpose does the getTree function have in Random Forest? 
> Can you graph it
> as you can in rpart and can it be interpreted in the same way?
> 
> Helen Mills Poulos
> Yale School of Forestry
> 
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