Simon Dedman

with or without get(): Error in colnames(paste0("gausline_", k))[i + 1]

Similar issue if trying to workaround with cbind: Can name as string "col name" = 1:10, or #objectname ColName = 1:10 but not formulaicly paste0("Col","Name") = 1:10 #or anything evaluated...

Could use eval(parse(text(paste0 ? https://goodscienceblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/a-very-useful-function-eval-parse-text-paste/

Foreach loops: given one is expecting to run a single resvar which contains from 1 (bin/gaus nosimp) to loads (bin+gaus * simp for multiple tc lr bf combos) of BRTs,...

gbm.loop: could use foreach's: times(10), see https://datawookie.netlify.com/blog/2013/08/the-wonders-of-foreach/

gbm.auto: could foreach all parameters instead of 3 nested loops of lr bf tc: "We can string together multiple calls to foreach() using the %:% nesting operator. foreach(n = 1:5)...

[xgboost](https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) would address this. See [issue](https://github.com/SimonDedman/gbm.auto/issues/33).

see Eric Reyier run script: not only n of (positive) samples but also variance? From my email to him: "the ability to get finetooth to run with n=43 but var=33,...

Howdy, sorry for the slow reply, been a crazy few weeks. This is the first I've heard about `fold.vector`. I've forked (kinda) `gbm.step` within `gbm.auto`, and `gbm.auto` includes a `...`...

Hi Giovanni, I'm using the vcpkg instructions [here](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vcpkg/get_started/get-started-vscode?pivots=shell-bash); i.e. `./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh` . LMK if there's a better way for xubuntu - I ended up quite confused. Thanks!