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-Benckmark for Otto Group Competition
-=========
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-This is a folder containing the benchmark for the [Otto Group Competition on Kaggle](http://www.kaggle.com/c/otto-group-product-classification-challenge).
-
-## Getting started
-
-1. Put `train.csv` and `test.csv` under the `data` folder
-2. Run the script
-3. Submit the `submission.csv`
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-The parameter `nthread` controls the number of cores to run on, please set it to suit your machine.
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-## R-package
-
-To install the R-package of xgboost, please run
-
-```r
-devtools::install_github('tqchen/xgboost',subdir='R-package')
-```
-
-Windows users may need to install [RTools](http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/) first.
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-Benckmark for Otto Group Competition
-=========
-
-This is a folder containing the benchmark for the [Otto Group Competition on Kaggle](http://www.kaggle.com/c/otto-group-product-classification-challenge).
-
-## Getting started
-
-1. Put `train.csv` and `test.csv` under the `data` folder
-2. Run the script
-3. Submit the `submission.csv`
-
-The parameter `nthread` controls the number of cores to run on, please set it to suit your machine.
-
-## R-package
-
-To install the R-package of xgboost, please run
-
-```r
-devtools::install_github('tqchen/xgboost',subdir='R-package')
-```
-
-Windows users may need to install [RTools](http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/) first.
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