Github user mengxr commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1798#discussion_r15898657 --- Diff: mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/DecisionTree.scala --- @@ -300,6 +309,93 @@ object DecisionTree extends Serializable with Logging { new DecisionTree(strategy).train(input) } + /** + * Method to train a decision tree model for binary or multiclass classification. + * + * @param input Training dataset: RDD of [[org.apache.spark.mllib.regression.LabeledPoint]]. + * Labels should take values {0, 1, ..., numClasses-1}. + * @param numClassesForClassification number of classes for classification. + * @param categoricalFeaturesInfo Map storing arity of categorical features. + * E.g., an entry (n -> k) indicates that feature n is categorical + * with k categories indexed from 0: {0, 1, ..., k-1}. + * @param impurity Criterion used for information gain calculation. + * Supported values: "gini" (recommended) or "entropy". + * @param maxDepth Maximum depth of the tree. + * E.g., depth 0 means 1 leaf node; depth 1 means 1 internal node + 2 leaf nodes. + * (suggested value: 4) + * @param maxBins maximum number of bins used for splitting features + * (suggested value: 100) + * @return DecisionTreeModel that can be used for prediction + */ + def trainClassifier( + input: RDD[LabeledPoint], + numClassesForClassification: Int, + categoricalFeaturesInfo: Map[Int, Int], + impurity: String, + maxDepth: Int, + maxBins: Int): DecisionTreeModel = { + val impurityType = Impurities.fromString(impurity) + train(input, Classification, impurityType, maxDepth, numClassesForClassification, maxBins, Sort, + categoricalFeaturesInfo) + } + + /** + * Java-friendly API for [[org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.DecisionTree$#trainClassifier]] + */ + def trainClassifier( + input: RDD[LabeledPoint], --- End diff -- `RDD` -> `JavaRDD`. Sorry I missed this in the first pass.
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