Help with setOptions request

[J_Riccotty]

I am having difficulty using "setOptions(String[])" to set up a committee of classifiers.

In the enclosed code I can only get a printout of the default options. I cannot get setOptions to set anything no matter what values I try (the values are for illustration/debugging, they are not real values!)

Thank you for your help.

J R

package piacat;

// weka 3.4.13

import weka.core.*;
import weka.core.converters.*;
import weka.classifiers.meta.*;

public class HowDoI {

private static RandomCommittee BuildCommittee (){

String[] ClassifierOptions = new String[7];

// There options are not the ones I want, they are just arbitrary
// values to see if I can set them, and then print them out

ClassifierOptions[0] = "-S 27 ";
ClassifierOptions[1] = "-I 51 ";
ClassifierOptions[2] = "-W weka.classifiers.trees.RandomTree ";
ClassifierOptions[3] = "-- ";
ClassifierOptions[4] = "-K 4 ";
ClassifierOptions[5] = "-M 6.2 ";
ClassifierOptions[6] = "-S 3 ";

weka.classifiers.meta.RandomCommittee Committee = new RandomCommittee();
try {
Committee.setOptions ( ClassifierOptions );
} catch ( Exception e ) {
System.out.println ( "setOptions screw up" );
}

// No matter what values I set above, the default values are printed

PrintOptions ( Committee );
return Committee;
}

private static void PrintOptions ( RandomCommittee Committee )
{
String Opt[] = Committee.getOptions();

for ( int L=0; L<Opt.length; ++L ) {
System.out.print ( Opt[L] + " " );
}
System.out.println();
}

public static void main(String[] options) {

// Data is in a CSV (comma seperated values) file

Instances Data = null;

byte[] charArray;

CSVLoader Loader = new CSVLoader();
try {
// Read message file into string
String DataFilename = Utils.getOption('d', options);

if (DataFilename.length() != 0) {

java.io.File DataFileHandle = new java.io.File(DataFilename);

Loader.setFile(DataFileHandle);

Data = Loader.getDataSet();

// My data has a redundant attribute!
Data.deleteAttributeAt ( Data.numAttributes() - 1 );

Data.setClassIndex ( Data.numAttributes() - 1 );
} else {
throw new Exception("Name of message file not provided");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

weka.classifiers.meta.RandomCommittee
RandForest = BuildCommittee ( );
}
}

[tdidomenico]

It may be because you have to separate the option from the value, like this:

String[] options = new String[2];
options[0] = "-S";
options[1] = "27";

I always enjoy using the splitOptions method. It makes my life easier by letting me pass parameters as if it were in the command line. I believe your case would be:

String[] options = weka.core.Utils.splitOptions("-S 27 -I 51 -W weka.classifiers.trees.RandomTree"); //and so on ;)

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

[J_Riccotty]

Thank you very much, that worked!