xgboost/R-package/README.md
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R package for xgboost
=====================
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Resources
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* [XGBoost R Package Online Documentation](http://xgboost.readthedocs.org/en/latest/R-package/index.html)
- Check this out for detailed documents, examples and tutorials.
Installation
------------
We are [on CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xgboost/index.html) now. For stable/pre-compiled(for Windows and OS X) version, please install from CRAN:
```r
install.packages('xgboost')
```
For up-to-date version, please install from github. Windows user will need to install [RTools](http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/) first.
```r
devtools::install_git('git://github.com/dmlc/xgboost',subdir='R-package')
```
Examples
--------
* Please visit [walk through example](demo).
* See also the [example scripts](../demo/kaggle-higgs) for Kaggle Higgs Challenge, including [speedtest script](../demo/kaggle-higgs/speedtest.R) on this dataset and the one related to [Otto challenge](../demo/kaggle-otto), including a [RMarkdown documentation](../demo/kaggle-otto/understandingXGBoostModel.Rmd).