[Jboost-users] JBoost questions

[David R. <rol...@ya...>]

Hi,=0A=0A    I just began to use JBoost and I have some questions.=0A=0A   =
 First, I tested the visualization tools to make sure I had the same result=
s as shown on http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~aarvey/jboost/doc.html#visualization.=
 I had to modify the atree2dot2ps.pl script because it does not use the "--=
dir" option everywhere in the script. Is it the expected behavior ?=0A=0A  =
  Second, I was not able to reproduce the margin output. My problem is that=
 I run JBoost on Windows XP and the margin script uses 'cat' and other Unix=
 commands. I am a C/C++ programmer, I don't know Perl nor Python. Even thou=
gh these languages are similar to C I still wonder how the files spambase.t=
rain.margin and spambase.train.scores can be processed to output the margin=
 graphic. And actually, what's the difference between these two files ? The=
re only seems to be some positive/negative changes of values. I don't expec=
t you to rewrite margin.py without taking advantage of Unix commands, but i=
f you explain how I can get from the data files to the output graphic, I'll=
 code myself a Windows equivalent.=0A=0AThanks,=0A=0ADavid R.=0A=0A=0A=0A=
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