[SPARK-11723] Use LibSVM data source rather than MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile to load DataFrame

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.0
• Component/s: Documentation, Examples, ML
• Target Version/s: 1.6.0
• Assignee: Yanbo Liang
• Reporter: Yanbo Liang
• Created: 13/Nov/15 07:02
• Updated: 13/Nov/15 16:43
• Resolved: 13/Nov/15 16:43

Description

We prefer to use sqlContext.read.format("libsvm").load(...) rather than MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(...) to load the data stored in LIBSVM format as a DataFrame, so make this change for all example codes under examples/ml and user guides example code. (only for ml not mllib)

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #9690 (yanboliang)