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r-xgboost 1.7.11.1

Extreme gradient boosting

This package provides an R interface to Extreme Gradient Boosting, which is an efficient implementation of the gradient boosting framework from Chen and Guestrin (2016). The package includes efficient linear model solver and tree learning algorithms. The package can automatically do parallel computation on a single machine. It supports various objective functions, including regression, classification and ranking. The package is made to be extensible, so that users are also allowed to define their own objectives easily.

Installation

Install r-xgboost 1.7.11.1 as follows:

guix install r-xgboost@1.7.11.1

Or install the latest version:

guix install r-xgboost

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.