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enable_categorical in R. #8969

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nipnipj opened this issue Mar 24, 2023 · 4 comments
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enable_categorical in R. #8969

nipnipj opened this issue Mar 24, 2023 · 4 comments

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nipnipj commented Mar 24, 2023

How can we use enable_categorical functionality in R?
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It's not implemented for R yet.

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nipnipj commented Mar 24, 2023

It's not implemented for R yet.

Are there differences between this functionality and using binary dummy variables? Maybe in computational time, or prediction performance.

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I'm currently on my phone, you can find an introduction from xgboost s document, under the tutorials section.

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Closing, the R support is tracked in #7899 .

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