Yeah I've got the book and it's good for some tasks but is by no means 
comprehensive. As for the -h option, that doesn't provide all that much 
information as to what each parameter does.

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> On 3 Nov 2014, at 7:53 pm, Suneel Marthi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There is no online documentation for each of the algorithm parameters,
> AFAIK.
> The only documentation would be the MiA book which covers details about the
> algorithms and parameters (without having to look at the code).
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Sean Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> So does that mean there is no additional documentation then? And yes I
>> tried Google as a first step, but no luck (and the point of documentation
>> is to remove the need to dig through source code!)
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On 3 Nov 2014, at 6:29 pm, sleefd <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> just go and read the source code(only  the  start  part  of the job
>> driver  class ). Its easy to learn what the params mean.Or you should
>> find  carefully on  the internet.
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> -------- 原始邮件 --------
>>> 发件人: Sean Farrell <[email protected]>
>>> 日期:2014-11-03  PM12:45  (GMT+08:00)
>>> 收件人: [email protected]
>>> 主题: Mahout documentation
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Is there a repository somewhere of documentation that explains what each
>> of
>>> the parameters in each of the Mahout algorithms does? In my search for
>> more
>>> detailed documentation I found a number of links to a Mahout wiki site
>> that
>>> no longer seems to exist. Does anyone know where this wiki has been
>> moved to?
>>> 
>>> I know there is a basic helpfile for each task, but I'm looking for
>>> something a bit more in depth. For example, I'm trying to work out what
>>> setting the partial implementation (i.e. -p) flag does in the
>> buildforest task.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Sean
>> 

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