So for simple datasets, which only have numeric and character
lable(without blank) category columns,  can we just use CSV tools to
save it as a standard CSV file without header?


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:53 AM, deneche abdelhakim <[email protected]> wrote:
> the current implementation doesn't support the ARFF format out-of-the-box,
> as described in the Wiki you need to remove the header of the file and leave
> only the data. Actually, this implementation is fully compatible with UCI's
> datasets which are comma separated text files. You'll also need to call the
> dataset description tool (see the wiki) in order to generate a proper
> description file (contains the nature of each attribute: Numerical or
> Categorical).
>
> Yes you can use BuildForest and TestForest to generate and use Random forest
> models from the command line
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Xiaobo Gu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The Random Forest partial implementation in
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Partial+Implementation
>> use the ARFF file format, is ARFF the only supportted file format when
>> using the BuildForest and TestForest program, and are BuildForest and
>> TestForest program are official tools to build Random Forest models
>> from the command line?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Xiaobo Gu
>>
>

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