data(mtcars) head(mtcars) bst <- xgb.train(data = xgb.DMatrix(as.matrix(mtcars[, -11]), label = mtcars[, 11]), objective = 'count:poisson', nrounds = 5) pred <- predict(bst, as.matrix(mtcars[, -11])) sqrt(mean((pred - mtcars[, 11]) ^ 2))