a bit of caution.
the latest version of libsvm is not yet available in the  e1071 R-package.

regards,
KM

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Georg Ruß <research@georgruss.de> wrote:

> On 03/12/10 16:23:33, manuel.martin wrote:
> > I am currently looking for a book about support vector machines for
> > regression and classification and am a bit lost since they are plenty of
> > books dealing with this subject. I am not totally new to the field and
> > would like to get more information on that subject for later use with
> > the e1071 <http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/e1071/index.html>
> > package for instance.
>
> Hi Manuel,
>
> there's also the references mentioned in ?svm once you've loaded the e1071
> library. Nevertheless, that's rather detailed on the implementation side,
> not on the general picture that I assume you'd like for a book.
>
> library("e1071")
> ?svm
>
> There's also the downloadable "A guide for beginners: C.-W. Hsu, C.-C.
> Chang, C.-J.  Lin. A practical guide to support vector classification"
> mentioned in the "additional information" section of
> http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/<http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/%7Ecjlin/libsvm/>(which, in turn, is from ?svm)
>
> Regards,
> Georg.
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