20.68 The Original C5.0 Implementation
The (Kuhn and Quinlan 2025) package interfaces the original C code of the C5.0 implementation by Ross Quinlan, the developer of the decision tree induction algorithm.
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## Call:
## C5.0.formula(formula=form, data=ds[tr, vars])
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## Classification Tree
## Number of samples: 192787
## Number of predictors: 20
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## Tree size: 1072
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## Non-standard options: attempt to group attributes
## Overall
## humidity_3pm 100.00
## wind_gust_speed 90.20
## sunshine 89.19
## rain_today 87.79
## pressure_3pm 34.27
## pressure_9am 27.40
## cloud_3pm 22.99
## wind_dir_3pm 18.59
## rainfall 18.24
## max_temp 14.86
## temp_9am 14.72
## wind_gust_dir 12.88
## min_temp 11.37
## wind_speed_9am 11.36
## temp_3pm 9.92
## wind_dir_9am 9.70
## humidity_9am 9.55
## wind_speed_3pm 8.67
## cloud_9am 4.68
## evaporation 2.58
% DONT EVAL YET - SEEMS TO BE TAKING LONG TIME
I am not aware of any converter from a C5.0 tree to an rpart tree and so fancyRpartPlot() will not be useful here.
References
Kuhn, Max, and Ross Quinlan. 2025. C50: C5.0 Decision Trees and Rule-Based Models. https://topepo.github.io/C5.0/.
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