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Plots Variable Importance from Random Forest in R
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library(randomForest) | |
library(dplyr) | |
library(ggplot2) | |
set.seed(42) | |
rf_out <- randomForest(Species ~ ., data=iris) | |
# Extracts variable importance (Mean Decrease in Gini Index) | |
# Sorts by variable importance and relevels factors to match ordering | |
var_importance <- data_frame(variable=setdiff(colnames(iris), "Species"), | |
importance=as.vector(importance(rf_out))) | |
var_importance <- arrange(var_importance, desc(importance)) | |
var_importance$variable <- factor(var_importance$variable, levels=var_importance$variable) | |
p <- ggplot(var_importance, aes(x=variable, weight=importance, fill=variable)) | |
p <- p + geom_bar() + ggtitle("Variable Importance from Random Forest Fit") | |
p <- p + xlab("Demographic Attribute") + ylab("Variable Importance (Mean Decrease in Gini Index)") | |
p <- p + scale_fill_discrete(name="Variable Name") | |
p + theme(axis.text.x=element_blank(), | |
axis.text.y=element_text(size=12), | |
axis.title=element_text(size=16), | |
plot.title=element_text(size=18), | |
legend.title=element_text(size=16), | |
legend.text=element_text(size=12)) |
it's showing this error:
geom_point()` requires the following missing aesthetics: y
Warning message:
Computation failed in stat_count()
Caused by error in FUN()
:
! invalid 'type' (list) of argument
Plot is blank, please help
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