combine: Combine Ensembles of Trees
In iRF: iterative Random Forests

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Combine two more more ensembles of trees into one.

1	combine(...)

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two or more objects of class randomForest, to be combined into one.

An object of class randomForest.

The confusion, err.rate, mse and rsq components (as well as the corresponding components in the test compnent, if exist) of the combined object will be NULL.

Andy Liaw

randomForest, grow

data(iris)
rf1 <- randomForest(Species ~ ., iris, ntree=50, norm.votes=FALSE)
rf2 <- randomForest(Species ~ ., iris, ntree=50, norm.votes=FALSE)
rf3 <- randomForest(Species ~ ., iris, ntree=50, norm.votes=FALSE)
rf.all <- combine(rf1, rf2, rf3)
print(rf.all)