[R] why delete.response?

[Saket Joshi]

Hi all,

I am running R1.5.0 under unix.

I recently used the function 'predict.tree' to make predictions with a
tree object and a dataframe of numeric items. The predict.tree internally,
calls a function 'delete.response'.

When I removed this function call from the source code of predict.tree, it
ran 10 times faster without any differences in the result obtained.
The documentation for delete.response says that this function is used for
deleting the response variable from the dataset. However the documentation
for the predict.tree function says that the response variable is ignored
during prediction.

Could someone tell me why the function 'predict.tree' calls
'delete.response'?

Thanks in advance,
-Saket.



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