In caret::train there are many pre-processing options that can be passed via the 'preProcessing' argument. This makes life super-simple because the test data is then auto-magically pre-processed in the same manner as the training data when calling 'predict.train'. Is it possible to do the same with 'findCorrelation' and 'nearZeroVar' in some manner?
I clearly understand from the documentation why the following code does not work, but I am hoping this clarifies my question. Ideally, I could do the following.
library("caret")
set.seed (1234)
data (iris)
# split test vs training
train.index <- createDataPartition (y = iris[,5], p = 0.80, list = F)
train <- iris [ train.index, ]
test <- iris [-train.index, ]
# train the model after imputing the missing data
fit <- train (Species ~ .,
train,
preProcess = c("findCorrelation", "nearZeroVar"),
method = "rpart" )
predict (fit, test)
Right now, you are tied to whatever preProcess will do.
However, the next version (around the start of the year, I hope) will allow you to more easily write custom models and pre-processing. For example, you might want to down-sample the data etc.
Let me know if you would like to test that version when we have a beta availible.
Max
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I would like to do something with MLFlow but I do not find any solution on Internet. I am working with MLFlow and R, and I want to save a regression model. The thing is that by the time I want to predict the testing data, I want to do some transformation of that data. Then I have:
data <- #some data with numeric regressors and dependent variable called 'y'
# Divide into train and test
ind <- sample(nrow(data), 0.8*nrow(data), replace = FALSE)
dataTrain <- data[ind,]
dataTest <- data[-ind,]
# Run model in the mlflow framework
with(mlflow_start_run(), {
model <- lm(y ~ ., data = dataTrain)
predict_fun <- function(model, data_to_predict){
data_to_predict[,3] <- data_to_predict[,3]/2
data_to_predict[,4] <- data_to_predict[,4] + 1
return(predict(model, data_to_predict))
}
predictor <- crate(~predict_fun(model,dataTest),model)
### Some code to use the predictor to get the predictions and measure the accuracy as a log_metric
##################
##################
##################
mlflow_log_model(predictor,'model')
}
As you can notice, my prediction function not only consists in predict the new data you are evaluating, but it also makes some transformations in the third and fourth columns. All examples I saw on the web use the function predict in the crate as the default function of R.
Once I save this model, when I run it in another notebook with some Test data, I get the error: "predict_fun" doesn't exist. That is because my algorithm has not saved this specific function. Do you know what can I do to save and specific prediction function that I have created instead of the default functions that are in R?
This is not the real example I am working with, but it is an approximation of it. The fact is that I want to save extra functions apart from the model itself.
Thank you very much!
This is my first attempt using a machine learning paradigm in R. I'm using a planet data set (url: https://www.kaggle.com/mrisdal/open-exoplanet-catalogue) and I simply want to predict a planet's size based on the size of its Sun. This is the code I currently have, using nnet():
library(nnet)
#Organize data:
cols_to_keep = c(1,4,21)
full_data <- na.omit(read.csv('Planet_Data.csv')[, cols_to_keep])
#Split data:
train_data <- full_data[sample(nrow(full_data), round(nrow(full_data)/2)),]
rownames(train_data) <- 1:nrow(train_data)
test_data <- full_data[!rownames(full_data) %in% rownames(data1),]
rownames(test_data) <- 1:nrow(test_data)
#nnet
nnet_attempt <- nnet(RadiusJpt~HostStarRadiusSlrRad, data=train_data, size=0, linout=TRUE, skip=TRUE, maxNWts=10000, trace=FALSE, maxit=1000, decay=.001)
nnet_newdata <- predict(nnet_attempt, newdata=test_data)
nnet_newdata
When I print nnet_newdata I get a value for each row in my data, but I don't really understand what these values mean. Is this a proper way to use the nnet() package to predict a simple regression?
Thanks
When predict is called for an object with class nnet you will get, by default, the raw output from the nnet model applied to your new dataset. If, instead, yours is a classification problem, you can use type = "class".
See here.
I have defined my training and test sets as follows:
colon_samp <-sample(62,40)
colon_train <- colon_data[colon_samp,]
colon_test <- colon_data[-colon_samp,]
And the KNN function:
knn_colon <- knn(train = colon_train[1:12533], test = colon_test[1:12533], cl = colon_train$class, k=2)
Here is my LOOCV loop for KNN:
newColon_train <- data.frame(colon_train, id=1:nrow(colon_train))
id <- unique(newColon_train$id)
loo_colonKNN <- NULL
for(i in id){
knn_colon <- knn(train = newColon_train[newColon_train$id!=i,], test = newColon_train[newColon_train$id==i,],cl = newColon_train[newColon_train$id!=i,]$Y)
loo_colonKNN[[i]] <- knn_colon
}
print(loo_colonKNN)
When I print loo_colonKNNit gives me 40 predictions (i.e. the 40 train set predictions), however, I would like it to give me the 62 predictions (all of my n samples in the original dataset). How might I go about doing this?
Thank you.
You would simply call the knn function again, using a different test parameter:
[...]
knn_colon2 <- knn(train = newColon_train[newColon_train$id!=i,],
test = newColon_test[newColon_test$id==i,],
cl = newColon_train[newColon_train$id!=i,]$Y)
This is caused by KNN being an non-parametric, instance based model: the data itself is the model, hence "training" is just holding the data for "later" prediction and does not require any computationally intensive model fitting procedure. Consequently it is unproblematic to call the training procedure multiple times to apply it to multiple test sets.
But be aware that the idea of CV is to only evaluate on the left partition each time, so looking at all samples is probably not what you want to do. And, instead of coding this yourself, you might be better off using e.g. the knn.cv function or the caret framework instead, which provides APIs for partitioning, resampling, etc. all in one, therefore is pretty convenient in such tasks.
I am currently taking the "Practical Machine Learning" course from Coursera right now and am having run across some strange behavior with the predict function. The question that has been asked was to train a tree and then make some predictions. So that I am not posting the answer here I have changed the dataset used for the problem. The code is as follows:
rm(list = ls())
library(rattle)
data(mtcars)
mtcars$vs = as.factor(mtcars$vs)
set.seed(125)
model = train(am ~ ., method = 'rpart', data = mtcars)
print(model)
fancyRpartPlot(model$finalModel)
sampleData = mtcars[1,]
sampleData[1,names(sampleData)] = rep(NA, length(names(sampleData)))
sampleData[1, c('wt')] = c(4)
predict(model, sampleData[1,], verbose = TRUE)
In the above code, there are two primary sections. The first builds the tree and the second (where sampleData starts) creates a small sample set of data to apply the model to. To make sure that I have the exact same structure as the original data I simply copy the first row of the training dataset and then set all the columns to NA. I then put data in only the columns that the decision tree needs (in this case the wt variable).
When I execute the above code, I get the following result:
Number of training samples: 32
Number of test samples: 0
rpart : 0 unknown predictions were added
numeric(0)
For reference, the following is the structure of the tree:
fancyRpartPlot(model$finalModel)
Can somebody help me to understand why the predict function is not returning a predicted value for the sampleData that I provided?
Unfortunately, even though rpart only used the wt variable in splits, prediction still requires the others to be present. Use a data set with the sample columns:
> predict(model, mtcars[1,])
[1] 0.8571429
Max
I am doing just a regular logistic regression using the caret package in R. I have a binomial response variable coded 1 or 0 that is called a SALES_FLAG and 140 numeric response variables that I used dummyVars function in R to transform to dummy variables.
data <- dummyVars(~., data = data_2, fullRank=TRUE,sep="_",levelsOnly = FALSE )
dummies<-(predict(data, data_2))
model_data<- as.data.frame(dummies)
This gives me a data frame to work with. All of the variables are numeric. Next I split into training and testing:
trainIndex <- createDataPartition(model_data$SALE_FLAG, p = .80,list = FALSE)
train <- model_data[ trainIndex,]
test <- model_data[-trainIndex,]
Time to train my model using the train function:
model <- train(SALE_FLAG~. data=train,method = "glm")
Everything runs nice and I get a model. But when I run the predict function it does not give me what I need:
predict(model, newdata =test,type="prob")
and I get an ERROR:
Error in dimnames(out)[[2]] <- modelFit$obsLevels :
length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
On the other hand when I replace "prob" with "raw" for type inside of the predict function I get prediction but I need probabilities so I can code them into binary variable given my threshold.
Not sure why this happens. I did the same thing without using the caret package and it worked how it should:
model2 <- glm(SALE_FLAG ~ ., family = binomial(logit), data = train)
predict(model2, newdata =test, type="response")
I spend some time looking at this but not sure what is going on and it seems very weird to me. I have tried many variations of the train function meaning I didn't use the formula and used X and Y. I used method = 'bayesglm' as well to check and id gave me the same error. I hope someone can help me out. I don't need to use it since the train function to get what I need but caret package is a good package with lots of tools and I would like to be able to figure this out.
Show us str(train) and str(test). I suspect the outcome variable is numeric, which makes train think that you are doing regression. That should also be apparent from printing model. Make it a factor if you want to do classification.
Max