takes matrix, dgCMatrix, local data file or
xgb.DMatrix.
label
the response variable. User should not set this field,
params
the list of parameters. Commonly used ones are:
objectiveobjective function, common ones are
reg:linearlinear regression
binary:logisticlogistic regression for classification
nrounds
the max number of iterations
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
...
other parameters to pass to params.
Details
This is the modeling function for xgboost.
Parallelization is automatically enabled if OpenMP is present.
Number of threads can also be manually specified via "nthread" parameter