[R] Multivariate response trees

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, F. Tusell wrote:

> I  would  like  to  know  if  someone has  done  work  on  trees  with
> multivariate  response. I  need something  like rpart  but  for vector
> responses.  If someone has  code that  he/she is  willing to  share, I
> would be grateful. If not, even guidelines for writing my own starting
> from rpart would be welcomed.

You will need to define spliting and pruning criteria. Once you have,
rpart is extensible, and there are examples of doing so in the test suite.

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