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Description of changes:
Currently, XGBoost doesn't fail when reading non-numeric data in CSV. Added a check to throw an error if the training data contains non-numeric data.

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  • Added a unit test
    tox -e py3-xgboost1.0,flake8

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Doesn't upstream XGBoost allow non-numeric data, for example NA for missing values?

@edwardjkim edwardjkim closed this Sep 10, 2020
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