Bug#710278: ITP: r-cran-gbm -- GNU R package "Generalized Boosted Regression Models"

[Pablo Oliveira <pablo@sifflez.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Pablo Oliveira <pablo@sifflez.org>

* Package name    : r-cran-gbm
  Version         : 2.1
  Upstream Author : Greg Ridgeway <gregr@rand.org>
* URL             : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gbm/index.html
* License         : GPL (>= 2) 
  Programming Lang: C++, R
  Description     : GNU R package "Generalized Boosted Regression Models"

  r-cran-gbm is a CRAN package. The CRAN description of the package
  follows:

  This package implements extensions to Freund and Schapire's AdaBoost
  algorithm and Friedman's gradient boosting machine. Includes
  regression methods for least squares, absolute loss, t-distribution
  loss, quantile regression, logistic, multinomial logistic, Poisson,
  Cox proportional hazards partial likelihood, AdaBoost exponential
  loss, Huberized hinge loss, and Learning to Rank measures
  (LambdaMart).