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 * [Multiclass Training/Prediction](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/R-package/demo/multiclass.R)
 * [Leaf (in)Stability](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/R-package/demo/leaf_stability.R)
 * [Weight-Parameter Adjustment Relationship](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/R-package/demo/weight_param.R)
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+External (Unofficial) Repositories
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+Projects listed here are not maintained or endorsed by the `LightGBM` development team, but may offer some features currently missing from the main R package.
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+* [lightgbm.py](https://github.com/kapsner/lightgbm.py): This R package offers a wrapper built with `reticulate`, a package used to call Python code from R. If you are comfortable with the added installation complexity of installing `lightgbm`'s Python package and the performance cost of passing data between R and Python, you might find that this package offers some features that are not yet available in the native `lightgbm` R package.