Tree based algorithms can be improved by introducing boosting frameworks. LightGBM is one such framework, based on Ke, Guolin et al. (2017). This package offers an R interface to work with it. It is designed to be distributed and efficient with the following goals:

1. Faster training speed and higher efficiency;

2. lower memory usage;

3. better accuracy;

4. parallel learning supported; and

5. capable of handling large-scale data.