On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Jonathan Williams wrote:
> The program will work away happily for hours and will sometimes perform
> as many as 100 cycles around the above loop. It gives quite nice results.
> But, quite frequently, and unpredictably, it fails and R just stops. As I
> say, the operating system continues and any other programs that are multi-
> tasking are unaffected.
>
> If anyone could give me an idea on how to avoid this problem, I'd be
> grateful.
It sounds as though randomForest has a small bug in its C memory
management. Unfortunately these can be quite hard to find and fix and
there isn't any straightforward way to work around them.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle
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