context('Test poisson regression model') require(xgboost) set.seed(1994) test_that("poisson regression works", { data(mtcars) bst <- xgboost(data = as.matrix(mtcars[,-11]), label = mtcars[,11], objective = 'count:poisson', nrounds=10, verbose=0) expect_equal(class(bst), "xgb.Booster") pred <- predict(bst, as.matrix(mtcars[, -11])) expect_equal(length(pred), 32) expect_lt(sqrt(mean( (pred - mtcars[,11])^2 )), 1.2) })