context('Test poisson regression model') require(xgboost) test_that("poisson regression works", { data(mtcars) bst <- xgboost(data = as.matrix(mtcars[,-11]),label = mtcars[,11], objective = 'count:poisson', nrounds=5) expect_equal(class(bst), "xgb.Booster") pred <- predict(bst,as.matrix(mtcars[, -11])) expect_equal(length(pred), 32) sqrt(mean( (pred - mtcars[,11]) ^ 2)) })