[MAHOUT-1896] Add convenience methods for interacting with Spark ML

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Epic Link: Samsara-framework
• Sprint: 0.14.0 Release
• Assignee: Trevor Grant
• Reporter: Trevor Grant
• Created: 15/Dec/16 22:50
• Updated: 04/Mar/18 02:47
• Resolved: 21/Jan/17 05:46

Description

Currently the method for ingesting RDDs to DRM is `drmWrap`. This is a flexible method, however there are many cases when the RDD to be wrapped is either RDD[org.apache.spark.mllib.lingalg.Vector], RDD[org.apache.spark.mllib.regression.LabeledPoint], or DataFrame[Row] (as is the case when working with SparkML. It makes sense to create convenience methods for converting these types to DRM.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #263