GitHub user mengxr opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/685
[SPARK-1752][MLLIB] Standardize text format for vectors and labeled points We should standardize the text format used to represent vectors and labeled points. The proposed formats are the following: 1. dense vector: `[v0,v1,..]` 2. sparse vector: `(size,[i0,i1],[v0,v1])` 3. labeled point: `(label,vector)` where "(..)" indicates a tuple and "[...]" indicate an array. Those are compatible with Python's syntax and can be easily parsed using `eval`. This PR doesn't contain changes to pyspark. I need to figure out how to change dense array's `__str__`. `MLUtils#saveLabeledData` and `MLUtils#loadLabeledData` are deprecated. Users should use `RDD#saveAsTextFile` and `MLUtils#loadLabeledPoints` instead. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/mengxr/spark labeled-io Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/685.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #685 ---- commit 19aa5236a20aa2ad7479ed7fdd6db95cc6a6b13f Author: Xiangrui Meng <m...@databricks.com> Date: 2014-05-07T20:22:13Z update toString and add parsers for Vectors and LabeledPoint commit 9e63a02b5fcf38c00b1634730e2f385961d0f326 Author: Xiangrui Meng <m...@databricks.com> Date: 2014-05-07T20:53:44Z add loadVectors and loadLabeledPoints commit e761d32f7ee62107bcef17fe7491ab086641ac5b Author: Xiangrui Meng <m...@databricks.com> Date: 2014-05-07T21:52:17Z make LabelPoint.parse compatible with the dense format used before v1.0 and deprecate loadLabeledData and saveLabeledData ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---