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I am using ROCR package and I was wondering how can one plot a ROC curve for knn model in R? Is there any way to plot it all with this package?

I don't know how to use the prediction function of ROCR for knn. Here's my example, i am using isolet dataset from UCI repository where i renamed the class attribute as y: 

cl <- factor(isolet_training$y)
knn_isolet <- knn(isolet_training, isolet_testing, cl, k=2, prob=TRUE)

Now my question is, what are the arguments to pass to the prediction function of ROC. I tried the 2 below alternatives which are not working:

library(ROCR)
pred_knn <- prediction(knn_isolet$y, cl)
    pred_knn <- prediction(knn_isolet$y, isolet_testing$y)
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    $\begingroup$ ROCR is not bound to a specific model. The only information you need are the true labels and the predictions of a model. Can you please provide some code and tell us where exactly you get stuck ? $\endgroup$
    – steffen
    Jul 31, 2012 at 14:32
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    $\begingroup$ @steffen i added an example $\endgroup$
    – blerta
    Aug 1, 2012 at 8:56
  • $\begingroup$ you have opened a very similar question for solving the same problem. I suggest to edit this one and flag the other one for close (either you choose or the mods will ;)). I see no value to keep both open. If you do not agree, please comment. $\endgroup$
    – steffen
    Aug 1, 2012 at 12:47

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ROCR plots ROCs for binary classification only, and ISOLET has 26 classes.

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  • $\begingroup$ You are right, I just realized it now myself, so I thought to use pROC, but there's another issue: I have to plot ROC curves of 6 different algorithms in one single plot and pROC supports only 2 curves in one plot. Do you have any idea how to do this? $\endgroup$
    – blerta
    Aug 1, 2012 at 11:48
  • $\begingroup$ @blerta re: plotting multiple ROC curves with pROC; try adding add = TRUE to your plot.roc() command, to all but the first ROC you try to plot. $\endgroup$
    – bright-star
    Jun 6, 2013 at 6:34

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