CatBoost is a very popular and high-quality gradient boosting library.
With the latest releases of bonsai and parsnip,
you can now train CatBoost models from R using the same tidymodels interface you already use for xgboost, LightGBM, and the rest of the boost_tree() family.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06-25_catboost-tidymodels/