xgboost Online Installer

This is Laurae's xgboost online installer: it allows to install xgboost from source directly from your R terminal.

Installation

devtools::install_github("Laurae2/xgbdl")

Usage

You need to define the proper compiler to use. It could be:

• gcc (if using Linux or Rtools/MinGW)
• Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64 (Rtools/Visual Studio)
• Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64 (Rtools/Visual Studio)

It is as simple as this:

xgbdl::xgb.dl(compiler = "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64")

For GPU installation in R:

xgbdl::xgb.dl(compiler = "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64", use_gpu = TRUE)

For AVX support in R:

xgbdl::xgb.dl(compiler = "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64", use_avx = TRUE)

Make sure to have the necessary pre-requisites:

• git (Windows: http://gitforwindows.org/)
• cmake (https://cmake.org/download/)
• any of those: gcc (Linux), Rtools + MinGW (Windows), Rtools + Visual Studio 2015 or 2017 (Windows)
• for GPU xgboost: CUDA

Tested working on:

• Visual Studio 2015
• Visual Studio 2017
• MinGW

Make sure also to provide a version older than the v0.7: commit dmlc/xgboost@8d35c09 on Dec 30 2017, otherwise you will get funny stuff.