[R] remove default values in internal booster manipulation functions (#9461)

R-package/R/callbacks.R

@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ cb.cv.predict <- function(save_models = FALSE) {
     if (save_models) {
       env$basket$models <- lapply(env$bst_folds, function(fd) {
         xgb.attr(fd$bst, 'niter') <- env$end_iteration - 1
-        xgb.Booster.complete(xgb.handleToBooster(fd$bst), saveraw = TRUE)
+        xgb.Booster.complete(xgb.handleToBooster(handle = fd$bst, raw = NULL), saveraw = TRUE)
       })
     }
   }
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ cb.gblinear.history <- function(sparse = FALSE) {
     } else { # xgb.cv:
       cf <- vector("list", length(env$bst_folds))
       for (i in seq_along(env$bst_folds)) {
-        dmp <- xgb.dump(xgb.handleToBooster(env$bst_folds[[i]]$bst))
+        dmp <- xgb.dump(xgb.handleToBooster(handle = env$bst_folds[[i]]$bst, raw = NULL))
         cf[[i]] <- as.numeric(grep('(booster|bias|weigh)', dmp, invert = TRUE, value = TRUE))
         if (sparse) cf[[i]] <- as(cf[[i]], "sparseVector")
       }

R-package/R/xgb.Booster.R

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Construct an internal xgboost Booster and return a handle to it.
 # internal utility function
-xgb.Booster.handle <- function(params = list(), cachelist = list(),
+xgb.Booster.handle <- function(params, cachelist, modelfile, handle) {
-                               modelfile = NULL, handle = NULL) {
   if (typeof(cachelist) != "list" ||
       !all(vapply(cachelist, inherits, logical(1), what = 'xgb.DMatrix'))) {
     stop("cachelist must be a list of xgb.DMatrix objects")
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ xgb.Booster.handle <- function(params = list(), cachelist = list(),
 
 # Convert xgb.Booster.handle to xgb.Booster
 # internal utility function
-xgb.handleToBooster <- function(handle, raw = NULL) {
+xgb.handleToBooster <- function(handle, raw) {
   bst <- list(handle = handle, raw = raw)
   class(bst) <- "xgb.Booster"
   return(bst)
@@ -129,7 +128,12 @@ xgb.Booster.complete <- function(object, saveraw = TRUE) {
     stop("argument type must be xgb.Booster")
 
   if (is.null.handle(object$handle)) {
-    object$handle <- xgb.Booster.handle(modelfile = object$raw, handle = object$handle)
+    object$handle <- xgb.Booster.handle(
+      params = list(),
+      cachelist = list(),
+      modelfile = object$raw,
+      handle = object$handle
+    )
   } else {
     if (is.null(object$raw) && saveraw) {
       object$raw <- xgb.serialize(object$handle)
@@ -475,7 +479,7 @@ predict.xgb.Booster <- function(object, newdata, missing = NA, outputmargin = FA
 #' @export
 predict.xgb.Booster.handle <- function(object, ...) {
 
-  bst <- xgb.handleToBooster(object)
+  bst <- xgb.handleToBooster(handle = object, raw = NULL)
 
   ret <- predict(bst, ...)
   return(ret)

R-package/R/xgb.cv.R

@@ -202,7 +202,12 @@ xgb.cv <- function(params = list(), data, nrounds, nfold, label = NULL, missing
        dtrain <- slice(dall, unlist(folds[-k]))
     else
        dtrain <- slice(dall, train_folds[[k]])
-    handle <- xgb.Booster.handle(params, list(dtrain, dtest))
+    handle <- xgb.Booster.handle(
+      params = params,
+      cachelist = list(dtrain, dtest),
+      modelfile = NULL,
+      handle = NULL
+    )
     list(dtrain = dtrain, bst = handle, watchlist = list(train = dtrain, test = dtest), index = folds[[k]])
   })
   rm(dall)

R-package/R/xgb.load.R

@@ -35,7 +35,12 @@ xgb.load <- function(modelfile) {
   if (is.null(modelfile))
     stop("xgb.load: modelfile cannot be NULL")
 
-  handle <- xgb.Booster.handle(modelfile = modelfile)
+  handle <- xgb.Booster.handle(
+    params = list(),
+    cachelist = list(),
+    modelfile = modelfile,
+    handle = NULL
+  )
   # re-use modelfile if it is raw so we do not need to serialize
   if (typeof(modelfile) == "raw") {
     warning(
@@ -45,9 +50,9 @@ xgb.load <- function(modelfile) {
         " `xgb.unserialize` instead. "
       )
     )
-    bst <- xgb.handleToBooster(handle, modelfile)
+    bst <- xgb.handleToBooster(handle = handle, raw = modelfile)
   } else {
-    bst <- xgb.handleToBooster(handle, NULL)
+    bst <- xgb.handleToBooster(handle = handle, raw = NULL)
   }
   bst <- xgb.Booster.complete(bst, saveraw = TRUE)
   return(bst)

R-package/R/xgb.train.R

@@ -363,8 +363,13 @@ xgb.train <- function(params = list(), data, nrounds, watchlist = list(),
   is_update <- NVL(params[['process_type']], '.') == 'update'
 
   # Construct a booster (either a new one or load from xgb_model)
-  handle <- xgb.Booster.handle(params, append(watchlist, dtrain), xgb_model)
+  handle <- xgb.Booster.handle(
-  bst <- xgb.handleToBooster(handle)
+    params = params,
+    cachelist = append(watchlist, dtrain),
+    modelfile = xgb_model,
+    handle = NULL
+  )
+  bst <- xgb.handleToBooster(handle = handle, raw = NULL)
 
   # extract parameters that can affect the relationship b/w #trees and #iterations
   num_class <- max(as.numeric(NVL(params[['num_class']], 1)), 1)