This modified version of the well-known rpart package, which has been forked from here, extends the functionalities of rpart so that the user can:
- Modify the mtry parameter (number of predictors considered at each split).
- Use new split functions which allow for dealing with predictands that are non-normally distributed. For speed purposes, this part of the code has been written in the C language.
This allows for building non-standard random forests through the RandomForestDist package.
Note: This package is still being developed and new functionalities may be added soon.
To install this modified version of rpart, simply type the following:
devtools::install_github("MNLR/rpart")
In case devtools is not already available, it can be installed from CRAN using the command install.packages("devtools").