Fit a random forest model

Source: R/fit_ranger_RF_and_make_predictions.R

The function fits a random forest model using ranger.

fit_ranger_RF(parms, dependent_variable, covariates_names,
  training_dataset, my_weights)

Arguments

parms

list of user-defined parameters.
dependent_variable

character string of the fitted response variable (FOI).
covariates_names

character vector of covariates names.
training_dataset

a dataframe of the dataset used for model training.
my_weights

character string of the name of the column of training dataset with case weights.

Value

the random forest model object returned by ranger