Running from recent trunk, I can't get any sign of life from the
'rowid' command / job. Null Pointer Exception, even when just asking
for --help. Details below.

Also I tried running this more directly as 'mahout
org.apache.mahout.utils.vectors.RowIdJob  --input
sparse3/tfidf-vectors/part-r-00000  --output matrixified/' but no
success there either.

I'm trying to get my book code sparse vectors into a form that can be
usefully SVD'd, now that I have made some successful / plausible
clusters using those vectors. I think I need first to transpose them
so my columns correspond to records/books not their subject codes, but
the transpose job complained with type errors, and searching on those
led me to discover the 'rowid' task, which I believe I need to use
before I can transpose my matrix. So I seem to be stuck. Is rowid the
thing to be using here?

Dan

TellyClub:bin danbri$ ./mahout rowid --help
MAHOUT_LOCAL is not set; adding HADOOP_CONF_DIR to classpath.
Running on hadoop, using HADOOP_HOME=/Users/danbri/working/hadoop/hadoop-0.20.2
HADOOP_CONF_DIR=/Users/danbri/working/hadoop/hadoop-0.20.2/conf
MAHOUT-JOB: 
/Users/danbri/working/mahout/trunk/examples/target/mahout-examples-0.6-SNAPSHOT-job.jar
^CTellyClub:bin danbri$ MAHOUT_LOCAL=true ./mahout rowid --help
MAHOUT_LOCAL is set, so we don't add HADOOP_CONF_DIR to classpath.
MAHOUT_LOCAL is set, running locally
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in
[jar:file:/Users/bandri/working/mahout/trunk/examples/target/mahout-examples-0.6-SNAPSHOT-job.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in
[jar:file:/Users/bandri/working/mahout/trunk/examples/target/dependency/slf4j-jcl-1.6.1.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in
[jar:file:/Users/bandri/working/mahout/trunk/examples/target/dependency/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:61)
        at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:50)
        at org.apache.mahout.utils.vectors.RowIdJob.run(RowIdJob.java:49)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79)
        at org.apache.mahout.utils.vectors.RowIdJob.main(RowIdJob.java:89)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver$ProgramDescription.invoke(ProgramDriver.java:68)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver.driver(ProgramDriver.java:139)
        at org.apache.mahout.driver.MahoutDriver.main(MahoutDriver.java:188)

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