Thanks Gavin,
Yes, rf <- randomForest(Class ~ ., data = trainfile)
randomForest works this way.
I would try to get it done with the other way - rf <-
randomForest(datatrain, classtrain[,1])

Thanking you once again for your response.

Best of my regards

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson@ucl.ac.uk>
wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 12:11 +0530, Soumyadeep Nandi wrote:
> > My data looks like:
> > A,B,C,D,Class
> > 1,2,0,2,cl1
> > 1,5,1,9,cl1
> > 3,2,1,2,cl2
> > 7,2,1,2,cl2
> > 2,2,1,2,cl2
> > 1,2,1,5,cl2
> > 0,2,1,2,cl2
> > 4,2,1,2,cl2
> > 3,5,1,2,cl2
> > 3,2,12,3,cl2
> > 3,2,4,2,cl2
> >
> > **The steps followed are:
> > trainfile <- read.csv("TrainFile",head=TRUE)
> > datatrain <- subset(trainfile,select=c(-Class))
> > classtrain <- (subset(trainfile,select=Class))
> > rf <- randomForest(datatrain, classtrain)
> >
> > Error in randomForest.default(classtrain, datatrain) :
> >   length of response must be the same as predictors
> > In addition: Warning message:
> > In randomForest.default(classtrain, datatrain) :
> >   The response has five or fewer unique values.  Are you sure you want to
> do
> > regression?
> >
> > Could someone suggest me where I am going wrong.
>
> Yep, look at class(classtrain):
>
> > class(classtrain)
> [1] "data.frame"
>
> subset() returns a data.frame, which is a special case of a list. The
> lengths of a list (and therefore a data frame) are not what you expect:
>
> > length(classtrain)
> [1] 1
>
> There is *1* component to the list, one '$' bit that you can get at.
> Hence, rf complains as, to it, the length of x and y are not the same,
> when evaluated using length().
>
> Note that ?randomForest does state that y should be a response 'vector',
> so you are not supplying what is required.
>
> Two ways to proceed:
>
> rf <- randomForest(Class ~ ., data = trainfile)
>
> or if you really don't want the formula parsing, force the empty
> dimension to be dropped, by subsetting:
>
> rf <- randomForest(datatrain, classtrain[,1])
>
> [Nb, as classtrain is of class "data.frame", drop() will not work on it
> as it doesn't have a dim attribute]
>
> HTH
>
> G
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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