Tree based algorithms can be improved by introducing boosting frameworks. 'LightGBM' is one such framework, based on Ke, Guolin et al. (2017) &lt;<a href="https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6907-lightgbm-a-highly-efficient-gradient-boosting-decision" target="_top">https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6907-lightgbm-a-highly-efficient-gradient-boosting-decision</a>&gt;. This package offers an R interface to work with it. It is d…