Set write.forest = TRUE by default?

[mnwright]

Should we set write.forest = TRUE by default?

The default is 'FALSE because the forest takes a lot of memory for very large datasets or huge forests and in some cases, e.g., when you are interested in variable importance, you don't need it.
On the other hand, for prediction it's annoying to always set the option.

What do you think?

[aaronpolhamus]

I vote yes, possibly with a message printed to console alerting the users to exactly the tradeoffs you've just articulated here.

[rfcv]

I vote yes, because in general users are interested in making predictions with their model. Additionally, most machine learning libraries default to write their model.

[mnwright]

Changed. It's now write.forest = TRUE by default.