It was a general question to find out if the caret framework supported
passing feature weights to any predictive model. But I guess, it may only
make sense in the context of the model. The ones I am interested in would be
svm and knn.

Thanks,
Kendric

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Max Kuhn <mxkuhn@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Using the 'CARET' package, is it possible to specify weights for features
> > used in model prediction?
>
> For what model?
>
> > And for the 'knn' implementation, is there a way
> > to choose a distance metric (i.e. Mahalanobis distance)?
> >
>
> No, sorry.
>
> Max
>

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