[R] Newbie with R

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Thomas wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I thank people who helped me about the learning algorithms of R.
> I managed to use the "nnet" and "rpart" packages successfully  [;-)] The
> thing is that I don't know which methods they use.
> Because I am writing a report on what I did with them, I'd like to know
> the actual names of these.
> I may appear stupid but I didn't find any known name in the documentation.

`nnet' and `rpart'!  They are just as much well-defined methods as
`C4.5'.  Why do you assume that Quinlan has an original method but
Ripley/Therneau/Atkinson copy?

>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Thomas.
>
>
>
> Thomas DEGRIS wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to test some learning algorithms (C5.0, or C4.5) using
> > decision trees or neural network.
> > I didn't find anything in the R documentation for functions to apply
> > on datasets (well, English is not my mother tongue and I have some
> > problems to understand some functions descriptions). Does anybody know
> > where I can find anything about that ?
> >
> > Thank you very much,
> >
> > Thomas
> >
>
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