Overview¶

orangecontrib.earth provides a an implementation of Multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) for the Orange machine learning library. This implementation is based on the C code from R package earth by Stephen Milborrow.

Prerequisites¶

In order to use orangecontrib.earth you need to have already installed Orange (version 2.7 or latest).

If you are installing from source you will also need the a working C compiler tool-chain.

On Windows install the free Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express (direct download link)
On Linux use you distribution’s package management tools to install gcc
On Mac OSX install the XCode developer tools

You can install it using pip or easy_install:

pip install orangecontrib.earth

or:

easy_install orangecontrib.earth