Hi Deb,
There is a saveAsLibSVMFile in MLUtils now. Also, I submitted a PR for
standardizing text format of vectors and labeled point:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/685
Best,
Xiangrui
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Debasish Das <debasish.da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to change the toString on LabeledPoint to libsvm format so that I
> can dump RDD[LabeledPoint] as a format that could be read by sparse
> glmnet-R and other packages to benchmark mllib classification accuracy...
>
> Basically I have to change the toString of LabeledPoint and toString of
> SparseVector....
>
> Should I add it as a PR or is it already being added ?
>
> I added these functions toLibSvm in my internal util class for now...
>
> def toLibSvm(labelPoint: LabeledPoint): String = {
>
> labelPoint.label.toString + " " +
> toLibSvm(labelPoint.features.asInstanceOf[SparseVector])
>
> }
>
> def toLibSvm(features: SparseVector): String = {
>
> val indices = features.indices
>
> val values = features.values
>
> indices.zip(values).mkString("
> ").replace(',', ':').replace("(", "").replace(")","")
>
> }
> Thanks.
> Deb
