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\name{predict.lgb.Booster}
\alias{predict.lgb.Booster}
\title{Predict method for LightGBM model}
\usage{
\method{predict}{lgb.Booster}(
  object,
  data,
  start_iteration = NULL,
  num_iteration = NULL,
  rawscore = FALSE,
  predleaf = FALSE,
  predcontrib = FALSE,
  header = FALSE,
  reshape = FALSE,
  ...
)
}
\arguments{
\item{object}{Object of class \code{lgb.Booster}}

\item{data}{a \code{matrix} object, a \code{dgCMatrix} object or
a character representing a path to a text file (CSV, TSV, or LibSVM)}

\item{start_iteration}{int or None, optional (default=None)
Start index of the iteration to predict.
If None or <= 0, starts from the first iteration.}

\item{num_iteration}{int or None, optional (default=None)
Limit number of iterations in the prediction.
If None, if the best iteration exists and start_iteration is None or <= 0, the
best iteration is used; otherwise, all iterations from start_iteration are used.
If <= 0, all iterations from start_iteration are used (no limits).}

\item{rawscore}{whether the prediction should be returned in the for of original untransformed
sum of predictions from boosting iterations' results. E.g., setting \code{rawscore=TRUE}
for logistic regression would result in predictions for log-odds instead of probabilities.}

\item{predleaf}{whether predict leaf index instead.}

\item{predcontrib}{return per-feature contributions for each record.}

\item{header}{only used for prediction for text file. True if text file has header}

\item{reshape}{whether to reshape the vector of predictions to a matrix form when there are several
prediction outputs per case.}

\item{...}{Additional named arguments passed to the \code{predict()} method of
the \code{lgb.Booster} object passed to \code{object}.}
}
\value{
For regression or binary classification, it returns a vector of length \code{nrows(data)}.
        For multiclass classification, either a \code{num_class * nrows(data)} vector or
        a \code{(nrows(data), num_class)} dimension matrix is returned, depending on
        the \code{reshape} value.

        When \code{predleaf = TRUE}, the output is a matrix object with the
        number of columns corresponding to the number of trees.
}
\description{
Predicted values based on class \code{lgb.Booster}
}
\examples{
\donttest{
data(agaricus.train, package = "lightgbm")
train <- agaricus.train
dtrain <- lgb.Dataset(train$data, label = train$label)
data(agaricus.test, package = "lightgbm")
test <- agaricus.test
dtest <- lgb.Dataset.create.valid(dtrain, test$data, label = test$label)
params <- list(objective = "regression", metric = "l2")
valids <- list(test = dtest)
model <- lgb.train(
  params = params
  , data = dtrain
  , nrounds = 5L
  , valids = valids
  , min_data = 1L
  , learning_rate = 1.0
)
preds <- predict(model, test$data)
}
}