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")