On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 08:57 -0700, Joseph Retzer wrote:
> I was trying to produced bagged importance estimates of attributes in earth
> using the caret package with the following commands:
>
> fit2 <- bagEarth(loyalty ~ ., data=model1, B = 10)
> bagImpGCV <- varImp(fit2,value="gcv")
>
> My bootstrap estimates are produced however the second command "varImp"
> produces the following error:
>
> Error in UseMethod("varImp") : no applicable method for "varImp"
>
> Not sure what is going on, any advice would be appreciated,
The example in ?bagEarth works for me with caret and earth loaded
> library(earth)
> data(trees)
> fit1 <- earth(trees[,-3], trees[,3])
> fit2 <- bagEarth(trees[,-3], trees[,3], B = 10)
> varImp(fit2)
Overall
Girth 100.000000
Height 2.387985
> packageDescription("earth")$Version
[1] "2.3-2"
> packageDescription("caret")$Version
[1] "4.15"
Have you loaded the relevant packages and are they up-to-date? Can you
run the example above?
If the example works, then you'll probably need to supply data and code
that fails for you or contact the package maintainer for expert help.
HTH
G
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