xgboost/R-package/R/xgboost.R
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#' eXtreme Gradient Boosting (Tree) library
#'
#' A simple interface for training xgboost model. Look at \code{\link{xgb.train}} function for a more advanced interface.
#'
#' @param data takes \code{matrix}, \code{dgCMatrix}, local data file or
#' \code{xgb.DMatrix}.
#' @param label the response variable. User should not set this field,
#' if data is local data file or \code{xgb.DMatrix}.
#' @param params the list of parameters.
#'
#' Commonly used ones are:
#' \itemize{
#' \item \code{objective} objective function, common ones are
#' \itemize{
#' \item \code{reg:linear} linear regression
#' \item \code{binary:logistic} logistic regression for classification
#' }
#' \item \code{eta} step size of each boosting step
#' \item \code{max.depth} maximum depth of the tree
#' \item \code{nthread} number of thread used in training, if not set, all threads are used
#' }
#'
#' Look at \code{\link{xgb.train}} for a more complete list of parameters or \url{https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost/wiki/Parameters} for the full list.
#'
#' See also \code{demo/} for walkthrough example in R.
#'
#' @param nrounds the max number of iterations
#' @param verbose If 0, xgboost will stay silent. If 1, xgboost will print
#' information of performance. If 2, xgboost will print information of both
#' performance and construction progress information
#' @param missing Missing is only used when input is dense matrix, pick a float
#' value that represents missing value. Sometimes a data use 0 or other extreme value to represents missing values.
#' @param ... other parameters to pass to \code{params}.
#'
#' @details
#' This is the modeling function for Xgboost.
#'
#' Parallelization is automatically enabled if \code{OpenMP} is present.
#'
#' Number of threads can also be manually specified via \code{nthread} parameter.
#'
#' @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, nthread = 2, nround = 2, objective = "binary:logistic")
#' pred <- predict(bst, test$data)
#'
#' @export
#'
xgboost <- function(data = NULL, label = NULL, missing = NULL, params = list(), nrounds,
verbose = 1, ...) {
if (is.null(missing)) {
dtrain <- xgb.get.DMatrix(data, label)
} else {
dtrain <- xgb.get.DMatrix(data, label, missing)
}
params <- append(params, list(...))
if (verbose > 0) {
watchlist <- list(train = dtrain)
} else {
watchlist <- list()
}
bst <- xgb.train(params, dtrain, nrounds, watchlist, verbose=verbose)
return(bst)
}
#' Training part from Mushroom Data Set
#'
#' This data set is originally from the Mushroom data set,
#' UCI Machine Learning Repository.
#'
#' This data set includes the following fields:
#'
#' \itemize{
#' \item \code{label} the label for each record
#' \item \code{data} a sparse Matrix of \code{dgCMatrix} class, with 126 columns.
#' }
#'
#' @references
#' https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Mushroom
#'
#' Bache, K. & Lichman, M. (2013). UCI Machine Learning Repository
#' [http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml]. Irvine, CA: University of California,
#' School of Information and Computer Science.
#'
#' @docType data
#' @keywords datasets
#' @name agaricus.train
#' @usage data(agaricus.train)
#' @format A list containing a label vector, and a dgCMatrix object with 6513
#' rows and 127 variables
NULL
#' Test part from Mushroom Data Set
#'
#' This data set is originally from the Mushroom data set,
#' UCI Machine Learning Repository.
#'
#' This data set includes the following fields:
#'
#' \itemize{
#' \item \code{label} the label for each record
#' \item \code{data} a sparse Matrix of \code{dgCMatrix} class, with 126 columns.
#' }
#'
#' @references
#' https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Mushroom
#'
#' Bache, K. & Lichman, M. (2013). UCI Machine Learning Repository
#' [http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml]. Irvine, CA: University of California,
#' School of Information and Computer Science.
#'
#' @docType data
#' @keywords datasets
#' @name agaricus.test
#' @usage data(agaricus.test)
#' @format A list containing a label vector, and a dgCMatrix object with 1611
#' rows and 126 variables
NULL