R: Set information of an xgb.DMatrix object

setinfo {xgboost} | R Documentation

## Set information of an xgb.DMatrix object

### Description

Set information of an xgb.DMatrix object

### Usage

    setinfo(object, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'xgb.DMatrix'
    setinfo(object, name, info, ...)

### Arguments

`object` | Object of class "xgb.DMatrix"
`...` | other parameters
`name` | the name of the field to get
`info` | the specific field of information to set

### Details

The `name` field can be one of the following:

- `label`: label Xgboost learn from ;

- `weight`: to do a weight rescale ;

- `base_margin`: base margin is the base prediction Xgboost will boost from ;

- `group`: number of rows in each group (to use with `rank:pairwise` objective).

### Examples

    data(agaricus.train, package='xgboost')
    train <- agaricus.train
    dtrain <- xgb.DMatrix(train$data, label=train$label)

    labels <- getinfo(dtrain, 'label')
    setinfo(dtrain, 'label', 1-labels)
    labels2 <- getinfo(dtrain, 'label')
    stopifnot(all.equal(labels2, 1-labels))

[Package xgboost version 1.3.0.1 Index]