summary.VSURF: Summary of VSURF results

In robingenuer/VSURF: Variable Selection Using Random Forests

Summary of VSURF results

Description

This function displays a summary of VSURF results

Usage

## S3 method for class 'VSURF'
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object	An object of class VSURF, which is the result of the VSURF function.
...	Not used.

Details

This function prints the total computation time of VSURF. It also gives the number of selected variables (and the computation time) at each step of VSURF. In addition, it gives the number of cores and the type of cluster if the parallel version of VSURF was used.

Author(s)

Robin Genuer, Jean-Michel Poggi and Christine Tuleau-Malot

References

Genuer, R. and Poggi, J.M. and Tuleau-Malot, C. (2010), Variable selection using random forests, Pattern Recognition Letters 31(14), 2225-2236

Genuer, R. and Poggi, J.M. and Tuleau-Malot, C. (2015), VSURF: An R Package for Variable Selection Using Random Forests, The R Journal 7(2):19-33

See Also

VSURF, plot.VSURF

Examples

## Not run: 
data(iris)
iris.vsurf <- VSURF(iris[,1:4], iris[,5], ntree = 100, nfor.thres = 20,
                    nfor.interp = 10, nfor.pred = 10)
summary(iris.vsurf)

# A more interesting example with toys data (see \code{\link{toys}})
# (a few minutes to execute)
data(toys)
toys.vsurf <- VSURF(toys$x, toys$y)
summary(toys.vsurf)
## End(Not run)

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