diff --git a/R-package/DESCRIPTION b/R-package/DESCRIPTION index 4970c51a3..760f6f356 100644 --- a/R-package/DESCRIPTION +++ b/R-package/DESCRIPTION @@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ Version: 0.3-3 Date: 2014-12-28 Author: Tianqi Chen , Tong He , Michael Benesty Maintainer: Tong He -Description: This package is a R wrapper of xgboost, which is short for eXtreme - Gradient Boosting. It is an efficient and scalable implementation of - gradient boosting framework. The package includes efficient linear model - solver and tree learning algorithms. The package can automatically do - parallel computation with OpenMP, and it can be more than 10 times faster +Description: Xgboost is short for eXtreme Gradient Boosting, which is an + efficient and scalable implementation of gradient boosting framework. + This package is an R wrapper of xgboost. The package includes efficient + linear model solver and tree learning algorithms. The package can automatically + do parallel computation with OpenMP, and it can be more than 10 times faster than existing gradient boosting packages such as gbm. 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