[R] Error: Can not handle categorical predictors with more th an 32 categories.

[Liaw, Andy]

It always helps to check whether you got the data into R correctly.  Hint:
What does str(credit) tell you?

Andy

> From: Melanie Vida
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> My question is in regards to an error generated when using 
> randomForest 
> in R. Is there a special way to format the data in order to 
> avoid this 
> error, or am I completely confused on what the error implies?
> 
> "Error in randomForest.default(m, y, ...) :
>         Can not handle categorical predictors with more than 
> 32 categories."
> 
> This is generated from the command line:
>  > credit.rf <- randomForest(V16 ~ ., data=credit, mtry=2, 
> importance = 
> TRUE, do.trace=100)
> 
> The data set is the credit-screening data from the UCI respository, 
> ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/machine-learning-databases/credit-sc
reening/crx.data. 
This data consists of  690 samples and 16 attributes.
The attribute information includes:

A1:	b, a.
    A2:	continuous.
    A3:	continuous.
    A4:	u, y, l, t.
    A5:	g, p, gg.
    A6:	c, d, cc, i, j, k, m, r, q, w, x, e, aa, ff.
    A7:	v, h, bb, j, n, z, dd, ff, o.
    A8:	continuous.
    A9:	t, f.
    A10:	t, f.
    A11:	continuous.
    A12:	t, f.
    A13:	g, p, s.
    A14:	continuous.
    A15:	continuous.
    A16: +,-         (class attribute)

Has anyone tried randomForests in R on the credit-screening data set 
from the UCI repository?

Thanks in advance for any useful hints and tips,

Melanie

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