The Cubist R package fits Quinlan’s Cubist regression model based on the source of from www.rulequest.com. Some of the functionality is based on

• Quinlan. Learning with continuous classes. Proceedings of the 5th Australian Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence (1992) pp. 343-348

• Quinlan. Combining instance-based and model-based learning. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Machine Learning (1993) pp. 236-243

More details on Cubist can be found in Applied Predictive Modeling. A presentation on the model can be found here. This R Views blog post has information on Cubist and compares it to RuleFit.

To install the production version of the package, use:

install.packages("Cubist")

and to install the development version, use

require("devtools")
install_github("topepo/Cubist")