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randomForest out of bag prediction

Hello,

I am just not sure what the predict.RandomForest function is doing...
I confused.

I would expect the predictions for these 2 function calls to predict the same:
```{r}
diachp.rf <- randomForest(quality~.,data=data,ntree=50, importance=TRUE)

ypred_oob <- predict(diachp.rf)
dataX <- data %>% select(-quality) # remove response.
ypred <- predict( diachp.rf, dataX )

ypred_oob == ypred
```
These are both out of bag predictions but ypred and ypred_oob are
actually they are very different.
ypred_oob    0    1
        0 1324  346
        1  493 2837
ypred    0    1
    0 1817    0
    1    0 3183

What I find even more disturbing is that 100% accuracy for ypred.
Would you agree that this is rather unexpected?

regards
Witek