[BioC] error in using random forest

[Martin Morgan]

On 03/06/2012 08:17 AM, Salwa Eid wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Hello everyone,     I have tried using random forest as classifier for two classes.  My data consists of 58 samples and each one of them belongs one of the two classes.  When I tried runnng the random forest for the 58 samples, it gave me the followng error: Error in randomForest.default(m,y,...):  Can not handle categorical predctors wth more than 32 categories. Although I have only 2 classes only.  When i tried running it on 32 or less samples, it worked but when  increased the samples, gave me this error.   I thought maybe there is a limitations to the input data but the iris example has 150 samples and it works just fine.   Any help? regards,salwa   		 	   		
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

likely your data is not formatted correctly, perhaps confusing factor 
and level. But without a reproducible example it is hard to help. Martin

>
> _______________________________________________
> Bioconductor mailing list
> Bioconductor at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor
> Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor


-- 
Computational Biology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109

Location: M1-B861
Telephone: 206 667-2793