Re: can we create dummy variables from categorical variables, using sparkR

Hi Devesh, RFormula will encode category variables(column of string type) as dummy variables automatically. You do not need to do dummy transform explicitly if you want to train machine learning model using SparkR. Although SparkR only supports a limited ML algorithms(GLM) currently. Thanks

can we create dummy variables from categorical variables, using sparkR

Hi, Can we create dummy variables for categorical variables in sparkR like we do using "dummies" package in R -- Warm regards, Devesh.

Re: can we create dummy variables from categorical variables, using sparkR

Yes, you can use Rformula library. Please see https://databricks.com/blog/2015/10/05/generalized-linear-models-in-sparkr-and-r-formula-support-in-mllib.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Devesh Raj Singh wrote: > Hi, > > Can we create dummy variables for categorical