[R] feature weighting in randomForest

["Häring, Tim (LWF)"]

Hello !

I´m using randomForest for classifacation problems. My dataset has 21.000 observations and 96 predictors. I know that some predictors of my dataset have more influence to classify my data than others.
Therefore I would like to know if there is a way to weight my predictors. I know that for constructing each tree in a forest the most influencial predictor is used for partitioning the data. But maybe it would have an effect if I weight my predictors. 

Thanks in advance

TIM

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Tim Haering
Bavarian State Institute of Forest Research 
Department of Forest Ecology
Am Hochanger 11
D-85354 Freising

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