# constructing DMatrix xgb.DMatrix <- function(data, info = list(), missing = 0, ...) { if (typeof(data) == "character") { handle <- .Call("XGDMatrixCreateFromFile_R", data, as.integer(FALSE), PACKAGE = "xgboost") } else if (is.matrix(data)) { handle <- .Call("XGDMatrixCreateFromMat_R", data, missing, PACKAGE = "xgboost") } else if (class(data) == "dgCMatrix") { handle <- .Call("XGDMatrixCreateFromCSC_R", data@p, data@i, data@x, PACKAGE = "xgboost") } else { stop(paste("xgb.DMatrix: does not support to construct from ", typeof(data))) } dmat <- structure(handle, class = "xgb.DMatrix") info <- append(info, list(...)) if (length(info) == 0) return(dmat) for (i in 1:length(info)) { p <- info[i] xgb.setinfo(dmat, names(p), p[[1]]) } return(dmat) }