context('Test Poisson regression model') require(xgboost) set.seed(1994) test_that("Poisson regression works", { data(mtcars) bst <- xgboost(data = as.matrix(mtcars[, -11]), label = mtcars[, 11], objective = 'count:poisson', nrounds = 10, verbose = 0) expect_equal(class(bst), "xgb.Booster") pred <- predict(bst, as.matrix(mtcars[, -11])) expect_equal(length(pred), 32) expect_lt(sqrt(mean((pred - mtcars[, 11])^2)), 1.2) })