Xgboost
Installation
Install XGBoost on Mac OS Sierra for Python Programming
First, build the shared library from the C++ codes (libxgboost.so). Then install the Python language packages.
- Python(Download and install Python from python.org website)
XGBoost supports multi-threading. So you can use the multithreading feature if you need. But enabling multi-thread feature is very high time-consuming process. It took me to install the multi-threading library. So the choice is yours. Try with Without multi-threading or With multi-threading.
Run the below two commands on the terminal to install the shared library.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost
cd xgboost; cp make/minimum.mk ./config.mk; make -j4
That’s all. You are done.
By default clang in OSX does not come with open-mp. Use the below code for OpenMP enabled XGBoost.
Now, clone the repository
git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost
Next copy the config file.
cd xgboost; cp make/config.mk ./config.mk
Now open the config.mk file using the below command or open with any text editor.
vi config.mk
Uncomment the lines near the top of the file:
export CC = gcc
export CXX = g++
Change them to the following:
export CC = gcc-7
export CXX = g++-7
And Change them to the following in the Makefile.
export CC = gcc-7
export CXX = g++-7
Save the file. Now you need to run a cleaning step since you changed the Makefile.
make clean_all && make -j4
The python package is located at python-package. Install system-widely, which requires root permission.
cd python-package; sudo python setup.py install
That’s all. Now you successfully installed the XGBoost library. Import the XGBoost like below on Anaconda or Python. import xgboost as xgb
Sometimes, you will encounter some error like below while using the XGBoost on Anaconda.
Execute the below command on terminal to solve the above error. conda install -c conda-forge xgboost=0.6a2