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R is a free, open-source programming language and software environment for statistical computing, bioinformatics, and graphics.

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Boruta feature selection in R with custom importance (xgboost feature importance)

Boruta is by universal reputation dog-slow and not very good. Boruta runs take many hours or days. VIF feature-selection algorithm is not objective, anyway. You can program your own feature-selection …
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Why is this Binning by Median code wrong?

The error is due to the well-known R gotcha that the : (colon operator, which calls seq()) takes higher precedence than arithmetic. … 48.9 48.9 48.9 [1] 65.25 65.25 65.25 65.25 [1] 79.25 79.25 79.25 79.25 But in fact you can replace even that with: split(a, ceiling(seq_along(a)/binsize)) as per the "Split a vector into chunks in R" …
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