Thank you very much, Andy.
I did not mean to bombard the list - for some reason unknown to the
moderators my messages were held by a filter so that none of them appeared.
Hope it's fixed now.
Dimitri


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw@merck.com> wrote:

> Firstly, you've posted a number of similar messages (not this one, but
> about explanation of variable importance) three times since last
> evening.  I'd ask that you not bombard the mailing list with the same
> messages.  No one on the list is obligated to help you within the time
> you seem to expect, and re-posting isn't likely to increase the chance
> of getting a useful reply.
>
> To the point of your question here:  The default values of arguments to
> function (if exist) are shown in the "Usage" section.  In this
> particular case:
>
> ## S3 method for class 'formula':
> randomForest(formula, data=NULL, ..., subset, na.action=na.fail)
> ## Default S3 method:
> randomForest(x, y=NULL,  xtest=NULL, ytest=NULL, ntree=500,
>             mtry=if (!is.null(y) && !is.factor(y))
>             max(floor(ncol(x)/3), 1) else floor(sqrt(ncol(x))),
>             replace=TRUE, classwt=NULL, cutoff, strata,
>             sampsize = if (replace) nrow(x) else ceiling(.632*nrow(x)),
>             nodesize = if (!is.null(y) && !is.factor(y)) 5 else 1,
>             maxnodes = NULL,
>             importance=FALSE, localImp=FALSE, nPerm=1,
>
> Note the end of that last line quoted above.
>
> Andy
>
>
> From: Dimitri Liakhovitski
> >
> > Could not find it in ?randomForest.
> > Thank you for your help!
> >
> > --
> > Dimitri Liakhovitski
> > Ninah.com
> > Dimitri.Liakhovitski@ninah.com
> >
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