[R] ctree - party package multivariate response variables

[Peter Ehlers]

Your description of your data isn't clear to me.
What are the values in column 2, for example?
Are you trying to construct regression or classification trees?

A reproducible example would really help.

  -Peter Ehlers

On 2010-03-08 20:40, valeriano.parravicini at unige.it wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with ctree of party package.
> I have data on distribution of more than one species (about 50 species) and I
> would like identify the relation of this multivariate object (species
> distribution) with a number of explanatory variables.
>
> rs is the name of my dataframe containing the species (columns from 2 to 51) and
> the explanatory variables (columns 52 and 53). Rows are my sampling sites.
>
> I wrote:
>
> species<-rs[,2:51]
> v1<-rs[,52]
> v2<-rs[53]
> tree<-ctree(species~v1+v2)
>
> It does not work , but when I use the same formula for the univariate case (i.e.
> a single column - e.g. the total number of species in each samplig sites) it
> works. I know that ctree can handle multivariate response variables, but I
> cannot figure out how to do that.
>
> Someone can help me?
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> Valeriano
>
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Peter Ehlers
University of Calgary