Read data from memory in Vowpal Wabbit?

Question

Is there a way to send data to train a model in Vowpal Wabbit without writing it to disk?

Here\'s what I\'m trying to do. I have a relatively large dataset in csv (aroun

Answer 1

I am also using R to transform data and output them to VowpalWabbit. There exists RVowpalWabbit package on CRAN which can be used to connect R with VowpalWabbit. However, it is only available on Linux.

Also, to speed things up, I use fread function of data.table package. Transformations of data.table are also quicker than in data.frame, but one needs to learn a different syntax.