is.classification: Check if a certain predictive task is a classification...

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Description

This function tests if a task defined by a formula over a data set is a classification task, which will be the case if the target variable is nominal.

Usage

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Arguments

task

An object of class PredTask

Value

A logical value

Author(s)

Luis Torgo ltorgo@dcc.fc.up.pt

References

Torgo, L. (2014) An Infra-Structure for Performance Estimation and Experimental Comparison of Predictive Models in R. arXiv:1412.0436 [cs.MS] http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0436

See Also

is.regression

Examples

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data(iris)
tsk <- PredTask(Species ~ .,iris)
if (is.classification(tsk)) cat("This is a classification task.\n")

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