#' Save xgboost model to binary file #' #' Save xgboost model from xgboost or xgb.train #' #' @param model the model object. #' @param fname the name of the binary file. #' #' @examples #' data(agaricus.train, package='xgboost') #' data(agaricus.test, package='xgboost') #' train <- agaricus.train #' test <- agaricus.test #' bst <- xgboost(data = train$data, label = train$label, max.depth = 2, #' eta = 1, nround = 2,objective = "binary:logistic") #' xgb.save(bst, 'xgb.model') #' bst <- xgb.load('xgb.model') #' pred <- predict(bst, test$data) #' @export #' xgb.save <- function(model, fname) { if (typeof(fname) != "character") { stop("xgb.save: fname must be character") } if (class(model) == "xgb.Booster") { .Call("XGBoosterSaveModel_R", model, fname, PACKAGE = "xgboost") return(TRUE) } stop("xgb.save: the input must be xgb.Booster. Use xgb.DMatrix.save to save xgb.DMatrix object.") return(FALSE) }