Max,

Thank you for the assistance.  That was it.  My dependent variable was just 
using 1 and 0 as levels, I changed them to "yes", "no":

levels(trainset$outcome) <- list(no="0", yes="1")

and I no longer get the warning.

Brian


On Nov 29, 2012, at 10:29 PM, Max Kuhn <mxk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Your output has:
> 
> "At least one of the class levels are not valid R variables names; This may 
> cause errors if class probabilities are generated because the variables names 
> will be converted to: X0, X1"
> 
> Try changing the factor levels to avoid leading numbers and try again.
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Brian Feeny <bfe...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Yes I am still getting this error, here is my sessionInfo:
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] e1071_1.6-1     class_7.3-5     kernlab_0.9-14  caret_5.15-045  
> foreach_1.4.0   cluster_1.14.3 
> [7] reshape_0.8.4   plyr_1.7.1      lattice_0.20-10
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] codetools_0.2-8 compiler_2.15.2 grid_2.15.2     iterators_1.0.6 
> tools_2.15.2   
> 
> 
> Is there an example that shows a classProbs example, I could try to run it to 
> replicate and see if it works on my system.
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Nov 29, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Max Kuhn <mxk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> You didn't provide the results of sessionInfo().
>> 
>> Upgrade to the version just released on cran and see if you still have the 
>> issue.
>> 
>> Max
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Brian Feeny <bfe...@mac.com> wrote:
>> I have never been able to get class probabilities to work and I am 
>> relatively new to using these tools, and I am looking for some insight as to 
>> what may be wrong.
>> 
>> I am using caret with kernlab/ksvm.  I will simplify my problem to a basic 
>> data set which produces the same problem.  I have read the caret vignettes 
>> as well as documentation for ?train.  I appreciate any direction you can 
>> give.  I realize this is a very small dataset, the actual data is much 
>> larger, I am just using 10 rows as an example:
>> 
>> trainset <- data.frame(
>>   outcome=factor(c("0","1","0","1","0","1","1","1","1","0")),
>>   age=c(10, 23, 5, 28, 81, 48, 82, 23, 11, 9),
>>   amount=c(10.11, 22.23, 494.2, 2.0, 29.2, 39.2, 39.2, 39.0, 11.1, 12.2)
>> )
>> 
>> > str(trainset)
>> 'data.frame':   7 obs. of  3 variables:
>>  $ outcome: Factor w/ 2 levels "0","1": 2 1 2 2 2 2 1
>>  $ age    : num  23 5 28 48 82 11 9
>>  $ amount : num  22.2 494.2 2 39.2 39.2 ...
>> 
>> > colSums(is.na(trainset))
>> outcome     age  amount
>>       0       0       0
>> 
>> 
>> ## SAMPLING AND FORMULA
>> dataset <- trainset
>> index <- 1:nrow(dataset)
>> testindex <- sample(index, trunc(length(index)*30/100))
>> trainset <- dataset[-testindex,]
>> testset <- dataset[testindex,-1]
>> 
>> 
>> ## TUNE caret / kernlab
>> set.seed(1)
>> MyTrainControl=trainControl(
>>   method = "repeatedcv",
>>   number=10,
>>   repeats=5,
>>   returnResamp = "all",
>>   classProbs = TRUE
>> )
>> 
>> 
>> ## MODEL
>> rbfSVM <- train(outcome~., data = trainset,
>>                method="svmRadial",
>>                preProc = c("scale"),
>>                tuneLength = 10,
>>                trControl=MyTrainControl,
>>                fit = FALSE
>> )
>> 
>> There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)
>> > warnings()
>> Warning messages:
>> 1: In train.default(x, y, weights = w, ...) :
>>   At least one of the class levels are not valid R variables names; This may 
>> cause errors if class probabilities are generated because the variables 
>> names will be converted to: X0, X1
>> 2:  In caret:::predictionFunction(method = method, modelFit = mod$fit,  ... :
>>   kernlab class prediction calculations failed; returning NAs
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> Max
> 
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> 
> Max


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