A Faster 'ARFF' File Reader and Writer

Reads and writes 'ARFF' files. 'ARFF' (Attribute-Relation File Format) files are like 'CSV' files, with a little bit of added meta information in a header and standardized NA values. They are quite often used for machine learning data sets and were introduced for the 'WEKA' machine learning 'Java' toolbox. See < https://waikato.github.io/weka-wiki/formats_and_processing/arff_stable/> for further info on 'ARFF' and for < http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/> for more info on 'WEKA'. 'farff' gets rid of the 'Java' dependency that 'RWeka' enforces, and it is at least a faster reader (for bigger files). It uses 'readr' as parser back-end for the data section of the 'ARFF' file. Consistency with 'RWeka' is tested on 'Github' and 'Travis CI' with hundreds of 'ARFF' files from 'OpenML'.


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install.packages("farff")

1.1.1 by Marc Becker, 5 years ago


https://github.com/mlr-org/farff


Report a bug at https://github.com/mlr-org/farff/issues


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/farff


Authors: Marc Becker [cre, aut] , Bernd Bischl [aut] , Jakob Bossek [aut]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE license


Imports BBmisc, checkmate, readr, stringi

Suggests OpenML, testthat


Suggested by OpenML, evoFE, rtemis.


See at CRAN