bgreenwell
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2 years ago Hi @jameslamb, thank you for the heads up regarding changes coming to v4.0 of lightgbm! It looks like @mayer79 already submitted a PR with some fixes (thanks @mayer79). I’m on vacation now but will review next week when I return.
And yes, very happy to take any contributions to help fastshap continue to support lightgbm!
👋 Hello! I'm James, one of the maintainers of LightGBM.
We were excited to see
{fastshap}add support for LightGBM models. Thanks so much for making it easier for some R users to inspect the characteristics of their data via{lightgbm}models!First, I wanted to let you know that the next release of LightGBM (the entire project, including the R package) will be a major version release with significant breaking changes. See this discussion of v4.0.0: https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/issues/5153. We don't have a planned date for that release yet, as we have been struggling from a lack of maintainer attention / activity. But I expect it will be months not weeks from now.
Please open issues at https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/issues if there's anything we could do to make
{lightgbm}easier to use with{fastshap}.I'm opening this issue mainly to ask a question. In this period prior to v4.0.0, I'm willing to contribute and maintain the following here:
{fastshap}compatible with the latest release on CRAN (v3.3.2) and the upcoming release (v4.0.0) so that the next release of{lightgbm}isn't disruptive to youAre you open to such contributions?
Thanks for your time and consideration.