bigrf: Big Random Forests: Classification and Regression Forests for
Large Data Sets
This is an implementation of Leo Breiman's and Adele Cutler's
Random Forest algorithms for classification and regression, with optimizations
for performance and for handling of data sets that are too large to be
processed in memory. Forests can be built in parallel at two levels. First,
trees can be grown in parallel on a single machine using foreach. Second,
multiple forests can be built in parallel on multiple machines, then merged
into one. For large data sets, disk-based big.matrix's may be used for storing
data and intermediate computations, to prevent excessive virtual memory
swapping by the operating system. Currently, only classification forests with
a subset of the functionality in Breiman and Cutler's original code are
implemented. More functionality and regression trees may be added in the
future.
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