varImp.caretEnsemble {caretEnsemble}

Calculate the variable importance of variables in a caretEnsemble.

Description

This function wraps the varImp function in the caret package to provide a weighted estimate of the importance of variables in the ensembled models in a caretEnsemble object. Variable importance for each model is calculated and then averaged by the weight of the overall model in the ensembled object.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'caretEnsemble'
varImp(object, ...)

Arguments

object

a caretEnsemble to make predictions from.

...

other arguments to be passed to varImp

Value

A data.frame with one row per variable and one column per model in object