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one has to get a new fork from dmlc/xgboost like this one
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because of the use of submodules,
devtools
doesn't work anymore with installing the R-packages. One has to remove the submodules in the following manner:
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1030169/easy-way-pull-latest-of-all-submodules
- https://gist.github.com/kyleturner/1563153
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bring back the necessary customizations that we've made here
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test the new repo with avant-analytics and
run("demo_xgb_R")