R: Convert Data to Text Format

QuinlanAttributes {Cubist} | R Documentation

## Convert Data to Text Format

### Description

This class converts different types of data to a format required for Cubist and C5,0.

### Usage

    QuinlanAttributes(object, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'numeric'
    QuinlanAttributes(object, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'factor'
    QuinlanAttributes(object, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'character'
    QuinlanAttributes(object, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'ordered'
    QuinlanAttributes(object, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'Date'
    QuinlanAttributes(object, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'POSIXct'
    QuinlanAttributes(object, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'matrix'
    QuinlanAttributes(object, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
    QuinlanAttributes(object, ...)

    makeDataFile(x, y, w = NULL)

    makeNamesFile(x, y, w = NULL, label = "outcome", comments = TRUE)

### Arguments

`object` | An object to translate to the format expected by the Quinlan C code.
`x` | A data frame or matrix or predictors
`y` | A vector of outcomes
`w` | A numeric vector of case weights or `NULL`
`label` | A string required by the C code as the file name
`comments` | A logical; should info about the call be printed in the string?

### Value

A textual representation of the data.

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