toBreeze is private within Spark, it should not be accessible to users. If you want to make a Breeze vector from an MLlib one, it's pretty straightforward, and you can make your own utility function for it.
Matei > On Oct 17, 2014, at 5:09 PM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > Yes, I think that's the logic, but then what do toBreezeVector return > if it is not based on Breeze? and this is called a lot by client code > since you often have to do something nontrivial to the vector. I > suppose you can still have that thing return a Breeze vector and use > it for no other purpose. I think this abstraction leaks though. > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Nicholas Chammas > <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't know the answer for sure, but just from an API perspective I'd guess >> that the Spark authors don't want to tie their API to Breeze. If at a future >> point they swap out a different implementation for Breeze, they don't have >> to change their public interface. MLlib's interface remains consistent while >> the internals are free to evolve. >> >> Nick >> >> >> 2014년 10월 17일 금요일, ll<duy.huynh....@gmail.com>님이 작성한 메시지: >> >>> hello... i'm looking at the source code for mllib.linalg.Vectors and it >>> looks >>> like it's a wrapper around Breeze with very small changes (mostly changing >>> the names). >>> >>> i don't have any problem with using spark wrapper around Breeze or Breeze >>> directly. i'm just curious to understand why this wrapper was created vs. >>> pointing everyone to Breeze directly? >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/Vectors.scala >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/mllib-linalg-Vectors-vs-Breeze-tp16722.html >>> Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org >>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org