[R] Fix broken links. (#7670)

R-package/DESCRIPTION

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Authors@R: c(
   person("Min", "Lin", role = c("aut")),
   person("Yifeng", "Geng", role = c("aut")),
   person("Yutian", "Li", role = c("aut")),
+  person("Jiaming", "Yuan", role = c("aut")),
   person("XGBoost contributors", role = c("cph"),
          comment = "base XGBoost implementation")
   )

R-package/R/xgb.create.features.R

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #'
 #' International Workshop on Data Mining for Online Advertising (ADKDD) - August 24, 2014
 #'
-#' \url{https://research.fb.com/publications/practical-lessons-from-predicting-clicks-on-ads-at-facebook/}.
+#' \url{https://research.facebook.com/publications/practical-lessons-from-predicting-clicks-on-ads-at-facebook/}.
 #'
 #' Extract explaining the method:
 #'

R-package/R/xgb.dump.R

@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
 #' @param fname the name of the text file where to save the model text dump.
 #'        If not provided or set to \code{NULL}, the model is returned as a \code{character} vector.
 #' @param fmap feature map file representing feature types.
-#'        Detailed description could be found at
-#'        \url{https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/wiki/Binary-Classification#dump-model}.
 #'        See demo/ for walkthrough example in R, and
 #'        \url{https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/blob/master/demo/data/featmap.txt}
 #'        for example Format.

R-package/man/xgb.create.features.Rd

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Joaquin Quinonero Candela)}
 
 International Workshop on Data Mining for Online Advertising (ADKDD) - August 24, 2014
 
-\url{https://research.fb.com/publications/practical-lessons-from-predicting-clicks-on-ads-at-facebook/}.
+\url{https://research.facebook.com/publications/practical-lessons-from-predicting-clicks-on-ads-at-facebook/}.
 
 Extract explaining the method:
 

R-package/man/xgb.dump.Rd

@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ xgb.dump(
 If not provided or set to \code{NULL}, the model is returned as a \code{character} vector.}
 
 \item{fmap}{feature map file representing feature types.
-Detailed description could be found at
-\url{https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/wiki/Binary-Classification#dump-model}.
 See demo/ for walkthrough example in R, and
 \url{https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/blob/master/demo/data/featmap.txt}
 for example Format.}

R-package/man/xgb.load.Rd

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ An object of \code{xgb.Booster} class.
 Load xgboost model from the binary model file.
 }
 \details{
-The input file is expected to contain a model saved in an xgboost-internal binary format
+The input file is expected to contain a model saved in an xgboost model format
 using either \code{\link{xgb.save}} or \code{\link{cb.save.model}} in R, or using some
 appropriate methods from other xgboost interfaces. E.g., a model trained in Python and
 saved from there in xgboost format, could be loaded from R.

R-package/man/xgb.save.raw.Rd

@@ -5,10 +5,19 @@
 \title{Save xgboost model to R's raw vector,
 user can call xgb.load.raw to load the model back from raw vector}
 \usage{
-xgb.save.raw(model)
+xgb.save.raw(model, raw_format = "deprecated")
 }
 \arguments{
 \item{model}{the model object.}
+
+\item{raw_format}{The format for encoding the booster.  Available options are
+\itemize{
+    \item \code{json}: Encode the booster into JSON text document.
+    \item \code{ubj}:  Encode the booster into Universal Binary JSON.
+    \item \code{deprecated}: Encode the booster into old customized binary format.
+}
+
+Right now the default is \code{deprecated} but will be changed to \code{ubj} in upcoming release.}
 }
 \description{
 Save xgboost model from xgboost or xgb.train

R-package/vignettes/discoverYourData.Rmd

@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ levels(df[,Treatment])
 
 Next step, we will transform the categorical data to dummy variables.
 Several encoding methods exist, e.g., [one-hot encoding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hot) is a common approach.
-We will use the [dummy contrast coding](https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/r/library/r-library-contrast-coding-systems-for-categorical-variables/) which is popular because it produces "full rank" encoding (also see [this blog post by Max Kuhn](http://appliedpredictivemodeling.com/blog/2013/10/23/the-basics-of-encoding-categorical-data-for-predictive-models)).
+We will use the [dummy contrast coding](https://stats.oarc.ucla.edu/r/library/r-library-contrast-coding-systems-for-categorical-variables/) which is popular because it produces "full rank" encoding (also see [this blog post by Max Kuhn](http://appliedpredictivemodeling.com/blog/2013/10/23/the-basics-of-encoding-categorical-data-for-predictive-models)).
 
 The purpose is to transform each value of each *categorical* feature into a *binary* feature `{0, 1}`.