Indexing categorical feature columns in a dataset of Vector.
ft_vector_indexer(x, input_col, output_col, max_categories = 20L,
dataset = NULL, uid = random_string("vector_indexer_"), ...)
A spark_connection
, ml_pipeline
, or a tbl_spark
.
The name of the input column.
The name of the output column.
Threshold for the number of values a categorical feature can take. If a feature is found to have > max_categories
values, then it is declared continuous. Must be greater than or equal to 2. Defaults to 20.
(Optional) A tbl_spark
. If provided, eagerly fit the (estimator)
feature "transformer" against dataset
. See details.
A character string used to uniquely identify the feature transformer.
Optional arguments; currently unused.
The object returned depends on the class of x
.
spark_connection
: When x
is a spark_connection
, the function returns a ml_transformer
,
a ml_estimator
, or one of their subclasses. The object contains a pointer to
a Spark Transformer
or Estimator
object and can be used to compose
Pipeline
objects.
ml_pipeline
: When x
is a ml_pipeline
, the function returns a ml_pipeline
with
the transformer or estimator appended to the pipeline.
tbl_spark
: When x
is a tbl_spark
, a transformer is constructed then
immediately applied to the input tbl_spark
, returning a tbl_spark
When dataset
is provided for an estimator transformer, the function
internally calls ml_fit()
against dataset
. Hence, the methods for
spark_connection
and ml_pipeline
will then return a ml_transformer
and a ml_pipeline
with a ml_transformer
appended, respectively. When
x
is a tbl_spark
, the estimator will be fit against dataset
before
transforming x
.
When dataset
is not specified, the constructor returns a ml_estimator
, and,
in the case where x
is a tbl_spark
, the estimator fits against x
then
to obtain a transformer, which is then immediately used to transform x
.
See http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ml-features.html for more information on the set of transformations available for DataFrame columns in Spark.
Other feature transformers: ft_binarizer
,
ft_bucketizer
,
ft_chisq_selector
,
ft_count_vectorizer
, ft_dct
,
ft_elementwise_product
,
ft_feature_hasher
,
ft_hashing_tf
, ft_idf
,
ft_imputer
,
ft_index_to_string
,
ft_interaction
, ft_lsh
,
ft_max_abs_scaler
,
ft_min_max_scaler
, ft_ngram
,
ft_normalizer
,
ft_one_hot_encoder
, ft_pca
,
ft_polynomial_expansion
,
ft_quantile_discretizer
,
ft_r_formula
,
ft_regex_tokenizer
,
ft_sql_transformer
,
ft_standard_scaler
,
ft_stop_words_remover
,
ft_string_indexer
,
ft_tokenizer
,
ft_vector_assembler
,
ft_vector_slicer
, ft_word2vec