Feature Transformation – StringIndexer (Estimator)

R/ml_feature_string_indexer.R,

ft_string_indexer

Description

A label indexer that maps a string column of labels to an ML column of label indices. If the input column is numeric, we cast it to string and index the string values. The indices are in [0, numLabels), ordered by label frequencies. So the most frequent label gets index 0. This function is the inverse of ft_index_to_string.

Usage

ft_string_indexer( 
  x, 
  input_col = NULL, 
  output_col = NULL, 
  handle_invalid = "error", 
  string_order_type = "frequencyDesc", 
  uid = random_string("string_indexer_"), 
  ... 
) 

ml_labels(model) 

ft_string_indexer_model( 
  x, 
  input_col = NULL, 
  output_col = NULL, 
  labels, 
  handle_invalid = "error", 
  uid = random_string("string_indexer_model_"), 
  ... 
)

Arguments

Arguments	Description
x	A `spark_connection`, `ml_pipeline`, or a `tbl_spark`.
input_col	The name of the input column.
output_col	The name of the output column.
handle_invalid	(Spark 2.1.0+) Param for how to handle invalid entries. Options are ‘skip’ (filter out rows with invalid values), ‘error’ (throw an error), or ‘keep’ (keep invalid values in a special additional bucket). Default: “error”
string_order_type	(Spark 2.3+)How to order labels of string column. The first label after ordering is assigned an index of 0. Options are `"frequencyDesc"`, `"frequencyAsc"`, `"alphabetDesc"`, and `"alphabetAsc"`. Defaults to `"frequencyDesc"`.
uid	A character string used to uniquely identify the feature transformer.
…	Optional arguments; currently unused.
model	A fitted StringIndexer model returned by `ft_string_indexer()`
labels	Vector of labels, corresponding to indices to be assigned.

Details

In the case where x is a tbl_spark, the estimator fits against x

to obtain a transformer, which is then immediately used to transform x, returning a tbl_spark.

Value

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

ml_labels() returns a vector of labels, corresponding to indices to be assigned.

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_estimator(), ft_one_hot_encoder(), ft_pca(), ft_polynomial_expansion(), ft_quantile_discretizer(), ft_r_formula(), ft_regex_tokenizer(), ft_robust_scaler(), ft_sql_transformer(), ft_standard_scaler(), ft_stop_words_remover(), ft_tokenizer(), ft_vector_assembler(), ft_vector_indexer(), ft_vector_slicer(), ft_word2vec()