R: Recipes for Analysis, Visualization and Machine Learning

Performing cross-validation with the caret package

The Caret (classification and regression training) package contains many functions in regard to the training process for regression and classification problems. Similar to the e1071 package, it also contains a function to perform the k-fold cross validation. In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to the perform k-fold cross validation using the caret package.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will continue to use the telecom churn dataset as the input data source to perform the k-fold cross validation.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to perform the k-fold cross-validation with the caret package:

1. First, set up the control parameter to train with the 10-fold cross validation in 3 repetitions: ...