[SPARK-8744] StringIndexerModel should have public constructor

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: ML
• Labels: starter
• Target Version/s: 1.5.0
• Assignee: Holden Karau
• Reporter: Joseph K. Bradley
• Shepherd: Joseph K. Bradley
• Created: 01/Jul/15 02:02
• Updated: 14/Aug/15 18:22
• Resolved: 14/Aug/15 18:22

Description

It would be helpful to allow users to pass a pre-computed index to create an indexer, rather than always going through StringIndexer to create the model.

Issue Links

• requires: SPARK-8764 StringIndexer should take option to handle unseen values
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #7267 (holdenk)