[R] Decision Tree and Random Forrest

[Michael Artz]

Ok is there a way to do  it with decision tree?  I just need to make the
decision rules. Perhaps I can pick one of the trees used with Random
Forrest.  I am somewhat familiar already with Random Forrest with
respective to bagging and feature sampling and getting the mode from the
leaf nodes and it being an ensemble technique of many trees.  I am just
working from the perspective that I need decision rules, and I am working
backward form that, and I need to do it in R.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nope.
>
> Random forests are not decision trees -- they are ensembles (forests)
> of trees. You need to go back and read up on them so you understand
> how they work. The Hastie/Tibshirani/Friedman "The Elements of
> Statistical Learning" has a nice explanation, but I'm sure there are
> lots of good web resources, too.
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
>
> Bert Gunter
>
> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
> and sticking things into it."
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>
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Michael Artz <michaeleartz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi I'm trying to get the top decision rules from a decision tree.
> > Eventually I will like to do this with R and Random Forrest.  There has
> to
> > be a way to output the decsion rules of each leaf node in an easily
> > readable way. I am looking at the randomforrest and rpart packages and I
> > dont see anything yet.
> > Mike
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