[R] Re transaction list transformation to use rpart.
Terry Therneau
therneau at mayo.edu
Mon Mar 7 15:35:03 CET 2011
> However the as.data.frame(a) transforms the matrix into a numeric
> data.frame so when I implement the rpart algorithm it automatically
> returns a regression classification tree.
Look at help(rpart). The program uses the type of the y variable to
GUESS at what you want for the "method" argument. It often guesses
wrong. Simply add
method="class"
as an argument to your call.
Terry Therneau
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