diff --git a/doc/user/methods/decision_tree_regressor.md b/doc/user/methods/decision_tree_regressor.md
index e07f3c01e1..f484b30ce1 100644
--- a/doc/user/methods/decision_tree_regressor.md
+++ b/doc/user/methods/decision_tree_regressor.md
@@ -194,7 +194,8 @@ See also the [simple usage example](#simple-usage-example) for a trivial use of
 
 ---
 
-Train a decision tree regressor on mixed categorical data.
+Train a decision tree regressor on mixed categorical data and save the model to
+disk.
 
 ```c++
 // Load a categorical dataset.
@@ -235,6 +236,9 @@ tree.Predict(testData, testPredictions);
 const double testAverageError = arma::mean(testResponses - testPredictions);
 std::cout << "Average error on test set: " << testAverageError << "."
     << std::endl;
+
+// Save the tree to "tree.bin" with the name "tree".
+mlpack::data::Save("tree.bin", "tree", tree);
 ```
 
 ---
diff --git a/src/mlpack/methods/decision_tree/decision_tree_regressor.hpp b/src/mlpack/methods/decision_tree/decision_tree_regressor.hpp
index 3fb57cd314..67f50695a8 100644
--- a/src/mlpack/methods/decision_tree/decision_tree_regressor.hpp
+++ b/src/mlpack/methods/decision_tree/decision_tree_regressor.hpp
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ class DecisionTreeRegressor :
     //! The dimension of the split, for internal nodes.
     size_t splitDimension;
   };
-  //! For internal nodes, the type of the split variable. 
+  //! For internal nodes, the type of the split variable.
   size_t dimensionType;
   //! For internal nodes, the split information for the splitter.
   arma::vec splitInfo;