On Dec 28, 2011, at 7:17 AM, rahul raghavendhra wrote:

> I am new to Mahout.. i just want to know how text file is converted into
> seqfile and then to sparse vectors..

There are quite a few steps.  I would recommend checking out the code and 
walking through it.  See the SparseVectorsFromSequenceFiles class as well as 
SequenceFilesFromDirectory.


> any kind of text file can  be converted into seq file using ./mahout
> seqdirectory ?

it works with plain text files.  I believe you can pass in the encoding of the 
file.  Is that what you are looking for?

-Grant

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