问题
I’m working on building predictive classifiers in R on a cancer dataset. I’m using random forest, support vector machine and naive Bayes classifiers. I’m unable to calculate variable importance on SVM and NB models
I end up receiving the following error.
Error in UseMethod("varImp") : no applicable method for 'varImp' applied to an object of class "c('svm.formula', 'svm')"
I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could help me.
回答1:
Given
library(e1071)
model <- svm(Species ~ ., data = iris)
class(model)
# [1] "svm.formula" "svm"
library(caret)
varImp(model)
# Error in UseMethod("varImp") :
# no applicable method for 'varImp' applied to an object of class "c('svm.formula', 'svm')"
methods(varImp)
# [1] varImp.bagEarth varImp.bagFDA varImp.C5.0* varImp.classbagg*
# [5] varImp.cubist* varImp.dsa* varImp.earth* varImp.fda*
# [9] varImp.gafs* varImp.gam* varImp.gbm* varImp.glm*
# [13] varImp.glmnet* varImp.JRip* varImp.lm* varImp.multinom*
# [17] varImp.mvr* varImp.nnet* varImp.pamrtrained* varImp.PART*
# [21] varImp.plsda varImp.randomForest* varImp.RandomForest* varImp.regbagg*
# [25] varImp.rfe* varImp.rpart* varImp.RRF* varImp.safs*
# [29] varImp.sbf* varImp.train*
There is no function varImp.svm in methods(varImp), therefore the error. You might want to have a look at this post on Cross Validated, too.
回答2:
If you use R, the variable importance can be calculated with Importance method in rminer package. This is my sample code:
library(rminer)
M <- fit(y~., data=train, model="svm", kpar=list(sigma=0.10), C=2)
svm.imp <- Importance(M, data=train)
In detail, refer to the following link https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rminer/rminer.pdf
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36845303/variable-importance-for-support-vector-machine-and-naive-bayes-classifiers-in-r