[R] What is the default nPerm for regression in randomForest?

[Liaw, Andy]

Firstly, you've posted a number of similar messages (not this one, but
about explanation of variable importance) three times since last
evening.  I'd ask that you not bombard the mailing list with the same
messages.  No one on the list is obligated to help you within the time
you seem to expect, and re-posting isn't likely to increase the chance
of getting a useful reply. 

To the point of your question here:  The default values of arguments to
function (if exist) are shown in the "Usage" section.  In this
particular case:

## S3 method for class 'formula':
randomForest(formula, data=NULL, ..., subset, na.action=na.fail)
## Default S3 method:
randomForest(x, y=NULL,  xtest=NULL, ytest=NULL, ntree=500,
             mtry=if (!is.null(y) && !is.factor(y))
             max(floor(ncol(x)/3), 1) else floor(sqrt(ncol(x))),
             replace=TRUE, classwt=NULL, cutoff, strata,
             sampsize = if (replace) nrow(x) else ceiling(.632*nrow(x)),
             nodesize = if (!is.null(y) && !is.factor(y)) 5 else 1,
             maxnodes = NULL,
             importance=FALSE, localImp=FALSE, nPerm=1,
 
Note the end of that last line quoted above.

Andy
 

From: Dimitri Liakhovitski
> 
> Could not find it in ?randomForest.
> Thank you for your help!
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