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Use this tag for any *on-topic* question that (a) involves `R` either as a critical part of the question or expected answer, & (b) is not *just* about how to use `R`.

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Relative importance of a set of predictors in a random forests classification in R

I'd like to determine the relative importance of sets of variables toward a randomForest classification model in R. …
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Integer regression coefficients in R

I'd like to fit integer coefficients, e.g. summing to 10, to a regression equation. The absolute values of the coefficients (i.e. predicted y) aren't important, I just want to retain the appropriate r …
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Variablity in cv.glmnet results

Alice's answer works well in most cases, but sometimes errors out due to cv.glmnet$lambda sometimes returning results of different length, e.g.: Error in rownames<-(tmp, value = c(0.135739830284 …
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Using information on both sides of a 'gap' in time series data for imputation

na.interp from the forecast package performs well (similar to na.StructTS as @g_grothendieck recommends, bit faster though) in this analysis of time series interpolation methods.
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Computing precision of continuous classifier with ordinal outcome

Hand & Till's multi-outcome AUC (R package) measure is helpful context, but insufficient since the raters aren't predicting each individual outcome. …
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Integer regression coefficients in R

We can apply the answer to Round vector of numerics to integer while preserving their sum: smart.round <- function(x) { y <- floor(x) indices <- tail(order(x-y), round(sum(x)) - sum(y)) y[indi …
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Methods in R or Python to perform feature selection in unsupervised learning

Principal Feature Analysis looks to be a solution to unsupervised feature selection. It's described in this paper.
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Methods in R or Python to perform feature selection in unsupervised learning

The nsprcomp R package provides methods for sparse Principal Component Analysis, which could suit your needs. …
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