splitData: Split data into a training and a test dataset

In jknowles/EWStools: Tools for automating the testing and evaluation of education early warning system models

Description

Split data into a training and a test dataset

Usage

splitData(data, class, p, pvalid = NULL)

Arguments

data	a dataframe that the user would like to split into training and sample sets
class	character value of the name of the dependent variable
p	the proportion of data to be placed into a training set
pvalid	the proportion of data to be placed into the validation set

Value

A list with the following items:

train

a data frame of the training values

test

a data frame of the test values

indexes

the row indexes of the original data frame selected to be in the training set

Note

Built on the createDataPartition function in the caret package. pvalid is defined against the records remaining after holding out p for the training set.

jknowles/EWStools documentation built on May 19, 2019, 11:42 a.m.