From f2c8093ba672fc09228b854076c87ab270b196a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tqchen Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 20:22:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in description --- R-package/DESCRIPTION | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/R-package/DESCRIPTION b/R-package/DESCRIPTION index a5be60f30..39a14a517 100644 --- a/R-package/DESCRIPTION +++ b/R-package/DESCRIPTION @@ -1,11 +1,17 @@ Package: xgboost Type: Package -Title: R wrapper of xgboost +Title: eXtreme Gradient Boosting Version: 0.3-0 Date: 2014-08-23 Author: Tianqi Chen, Tong He Maintainer: Tong He -Description: xgboost +Description: xgboost is short for eXtreme Gradient Boosting package. + It is an efficient and scalable implementation of gradient boosting framework. + The package includes efficient linear model solver and tree learning algorithm. + 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 extendible, so that user are also allowed to define there own objectives easily. License: Apache License (== 2.0) | file LICENSE URL: https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost BugReports: https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost/issues