[R] nnet inappropriate fit for class error

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 31 May 2011, Duygu Gunaydin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to run a nnet algorithm but when I try to use the predict function with type='class', it gives the following error:
>
> fit <- nnet(y~., size = 1, data = train.set, rang = 0.5, maxit=200, decay = 0)
>
> predict<-predict(fit,test.set,type='class')
> Error in predict.nnet(fit, test.set, type = "class") :
> inappropriate fit for class
>
> I couldn't figure out the reason for this, are there any specifications to use type='class' that I am missing?

Please see the footer of this message.   Very likely 'y' was not a 
factor, but we haven't been told what it is.

>
> Thank you,
>
> Duygu Gunaydin
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