Install Xgboost Anaconda Mac

The way below utilizes bash scripts which are a faster way to install anaconda. Open the Terminal by clicking on the Spotlight magnifying glass at the top right of the screen, typing “Terminal” then clicking the Terminal icon. Copy and paste the paste commands from either gist (python 2 or 3) below into the terminal. To install a PyPI package, in your Terminal window or Anaconda Prompt run: pip install -- index - url pypi. Org / USERNAME / simple packagename NOTE: Replace USERNAME with your username, and packagename with the actual name of the package. Xgboost is a recent implementation of Boosted Trees. It is a machine learning algorithm that yields great results on recentKagg le c ompe titi on s. I decided to install it on my computers to give it a try.

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I am a newbie and learning python. Can someone help me- how to install xgboost in python. Im using Mac 10.11. I read online and did the below mentioned step, but not able to decode what to do next:

I decided to install it on my laptops, an old PC running Windows 7, and a brand new Mac Pro running OSX. I thought the OSX installation was a no-brainer compared to the Windows one, as explained in Installing XGBoost For Anaconda on Windows. XGBoost is a library for developing very fast and accurate gradient boosting models. It is a library at the center of many winning solutions in Kaggle data science competitions. In this tutorial, you will discover how to install the XGBoost library for Python on macOS. Let’s get started. Install Python on Mac (Anaconda) While I previously made a video on how to manually install anaconda, the way below utilizes bash scripts which are a faster way to install a Python 3 or Python 2. XGBoost is a library for developing very fast and accurate gradient boosting models. It is a library at the center of many winning solutions in Kaggle data science competitions. In this tutorial, you will discover how to install the XGBoost library for Python on macOS.

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It's a little more complicated if you want to use multi-threading. For the record, I am using a Mac with OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). It took me a while to work through the various issues, but it is now running nicely in my Anaconda (Py36) environment.

For multi-threading you need to do the following first (install homebrew if you have not done so):

You might get some warnings to unlink directories or delete them if you have other versions installed; follow the warnings/instructions.

Next get the xgboost files from Github. I downloaded it to Anaconda/pkgs directory.

The next series of steps differ from the documentation on the xgboost site, and I cobbled it together from lots of sources and also experimenting. The problem is that some key lines in the make files are commented out and also not fully specified.

Now, use your favorite editor (I used vi), and go into the file that you copied from /make to /xgboost

Uncomment the lines near the top of the file:

export CC = gcc

export CXX = g++

Change them to the following:

It is possible that simply uncommenting the lines solves the problem. It did not for me; I needed to add the -6 to both lines. Save the file.

Also, make changes to the file xgboost/Makefile; change lines:

to the following:

Again, I used vi for this editing.

Save the file and now you need to run a cleaning step since you changed the Makefile.

This should configure it cleanly and build the library. You still need to install it.

Now restart Python/Anaconda and you should be able to import the library.

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For a newbie learning python and Machine Learning on Mac, I would strongly recommand to install Anaconda first (install doc).

Anaconda is a freemium open source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment.

If you installed Anaconda for Python 2.7, then you should have no troubles installing XGBoost with:

If you already have Anaconda installed and that your pip XGBoost installation failed, you should try:

Adrien RenaudAdrien Renaud

For Python-3.x, do the following in Mac

Make sure gcc-6 (and g++-6) is installed, if not do so with

Then, do the following

If you are using Anaconda and haven't yet configured your path to use the binaries in ~/anaconda/bin, then run the last line as

/path/to/anaconda/bin/python3 setup.py install

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I followed Bryan Butler's answer and it worked, I just needed to make some changes:

• gcc-7/g++-7 instead of gcc-6/g++-6.
• While running make clean_all && make -j4 I had an error with as. So, I just had to run export PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH and it worked!

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If you have anaconda installed, this worked for me:

Simply type in the terminal:

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All the other ways described here failed in my case. I managed to install by following the official installation described here:http://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build.html#building-on-macos

My system is MacOS Serria so I followed the instruction of 'Building on macOS'.

However, instead of 'replacing these two lines into(5 or 6 or 7; depending on your gcc-version' w.r.t. the config.mk file, I did:

Even though gcc-version showed Apple LLVM version 9.0.0.

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After that by following the official instruction of 'Python Package Installation' I was able to run the package in Python.

Zitong LianZitong Lian

You can pip install catboost.It is a recently open-sourced gradient boosting library, it has similar interfaces and is more accurate, than XGBoost, faster and has categorical features support out of the box. Here is the site of the library: https://catboost.yandex

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Anna Veronika DorogushAnna Veronika Dorogush

Im running Mac OS Mojave 10.14.5 and following the 'advanced method' instructions for Mac OS at https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build.html# worked for me. In short:

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