(1) install_github is not support due to the usage of submodule (2) remove part of the markdown which is not displayed correctly, see https://xgboost.readthedocs.org/en/latest/R-package/discoverYourData.html
The document of xgboost is generated with recommonmark and sphinx. You can build it locally by typing "make html" in this folder. - clone https://github.com/tqchen/recommonmark to root - type make html Checkout https://recommonmark.readthedocs.org for guide on how to write markdown with extensions used in this doc, such as math formulas and table of content.