vw: Run the Vowpal Wabbit fast out-of-core learner

In RVowpalWabbit: R interface to the Vowpal Wabbit

Description

The vw function applies the Vowpal Wabbit on-line learner to a given data set and model.

Vowpal Wabbit is a project sponsored by Yahoo! Research and led by John Langford.

At present, this package provides a simple yet crude interface.

Usage

vw(args, quiet=TRUE)

Arguments

args	A character vector containing the same arguments one would use on the command-line with the standalone vw binary.
quiet	A boolean switch which, if set, suppresses most output to stdout.

Details

Vowpal Wabbit is a very fast on-line machine learning application. Some documentation for it is provided via the upstream wiki referenced below.

Value

The vw returns a small data.frame with a number of summary statistics function returns a character string of a fixed length containing the requested digest of the supplied R object. For MD5, a string of length 32 is returned; for SHA-1, a string of length 40 is returned; for CRC32 a string of length 8.

Note

The RVowpalWabbit package contains the original test and validattion data, models, and output. In order to call the vw function with relative path names (as in the Vowpal Wabbit documentation), it is easiest to first change to a directory above all these files as for example via

    ## change to 'test' directory of package
    setwd( system.file("test", package="RVowpalWabbit") )
  

which computes where the package is installed, and then adds the test directory to that path before changing to working directory to the resulting path.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel [e-mail] for the R interface; John Langford along with Daniel Hsu, Nikos Karampatziakis, Olivier Chapelle, Paul Mineiro, Matt Hoffman, Jake Hofman, Sudarshan Lamkhede, Shubham Chopra, Ariel Faigon, Lihong Li, Gordon Rios, and Alex Strehl for Vowpal Wabbit.

References

https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki

Examples

  ## also see demo(vw) from which this is a subset

  library(RVowpalWabbit)

  ## change to 'test' directory of package
  setwd( system.file("test", package="RVowpalWabbit") )

  # Test 3: without -d, training only
  # {VW} train-sets/0002.dat    -f models/0002.model
  test3 <- c("-t", "train-sets/0002.dat",
             "-f", "models/0002.model")

  res <- vw(test3)
  res

RVowpalWabbit documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:25 p.m.