how to append to a file using scala/breeze library - scala

I wish to write to a file the output row of result matrix (produced in iterations) so that I can support checkpointing.
I figured we can use the csvwrite command to write the entire matrix to a file but how can I append to a file?
I am looking for something like below:
breeze.linalg.csvwrite(new File("small.txt"),myMatrix(currRow,::).t.asDenseMatrix)
However the above command overwrites the file each time the command is executed.

There's nothing built-in to Breeze. (Contributions welcome!)
you can use breeze.io.CSVWriter.write directly if you would like.

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How to save some variable values in a file

I want at the end of my program to get the values stored at certain variables and append them to a file let's say "result". I am going to run it several times (for different parameters) at night and then check results in the morning.
Basically, I am looking for something similar to redirection in linux (>>) for matlab.
I am using the diary function to store the whole messages from my program and i want to keep those for verifying later.
But here what I want is just some specific values. So how to do it?
It does not necessary have to be in the same file. If I can get each result in a separate file, that is ok too.
You can use a combination of diary and any function which can append data to a text file, but you have to turn off diary before writing. A short example using save
f='example.txt'
diary(f);
for ix=1:10
disp(ix);
diary off %diary off to flush
save(f,'ix','-append','-ascii')
diary(f);
end
Instead of save you can also use fprntf or dlmwrite

Write RDD in txt file

I have the following type of data:
`org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[((String, String),Int)]] = MapPartitionsRDD[29] at map at <console>:38`
I'd like to write those data in a txt file to have something like
((like,chicken),2) ((like,dog),3) etc.
I store the data in a variable called res
But for the moment I tried with this:
res.coalesce(1).saveAsTextFile("newfile.txt")
But it doesn't seem to work...
If my assumption is correct, then you feel that the output should be a single .txt file if it was coalesced down to one worker. This is not how Spark is built. It is meant for distributed work and should not be attempted to be shoe-horned into a form where the output is not distributed. You should use a more generic command line tool for that.
All that said, you should see a folder named newfile.txt which contains data files with your expected output.

Convert dataset of .mat format to .csv octave/matlab

there are datasets in .mat format in the this site: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~roweis/data.html
I want to change the format to .csv.
Can someone tell me how to change the format to create the .csv file.
Thanks!
Suppose that the .mat files from the site are available already. In the command window in Matlab, you may write, for example:
load('C:\Users\YourUserName\Downloads\mnist_all.mat');
to load the .mat file; the result should be a set of matrices test0, test1, ..., train0, train1 ... created in your workspace, which you want saved as CSV files. Because they're different size, you need to save one CSV per variable, e.g. (also in the command window):
csvwrite('C:\Users\YourUserName\Downloads\mnist_test0.csv', test0);
Repeat the command for each variable, and do not forget to change also the name of the output file to avoid overwriting.
Did you tried the csvwrite function in Matlab?
Just load your .mat files with the load function and then write them with csvwrite!
I do not have a Matlab license so I installed GNU Octave 4.2.1 (2017) on Windows 10 (thank you to John W. Eaton and others). I was not fully successful using the csvwrite so I used the following workaround. (BTW, I am totally incompetent in the Octave world. csvwrite worked for simple data structures).
In the Command Window I used the following two commands
load myfile.mat
save("-text","myfile.txt","variablename")
When the "myfile.mat" is loaded, the variable names for the data vectors loaded are displayed in the workspace window. This is the name(s) to use in the save command. Some .mat files will load several data structures.
The "-text" option is the default, so you may not need to include this option in the command.
The output file lists the .mat file contents in text format as single column (of potentially sequential variables). It should be easy to use you text editor to massage this data into the original matrix structure for use in whatever app you are comfortable with.
Had a similar issue. Needed to convert a series of .mat files that had two columns of numerical data into standard data files (ascii text). Note that I don't really ever use csv, but everything here could be adapted by using csvwrite instead of the standard save.
Using Octave 4.2.1 ....
load myfile.mat
LI = [L, I] ## L and I are column vectors representing my data
save myfile.txt LI
Note that L and I appear to be default variable names chosen by Octave for the two columns vectors in my original data file. Ideally a script that iterated over all files with the .mat extension in my directory would be ideal, but this got the job done. It saves the data as two space separated columns of data.
*** Update
The following script works on Octave 4.2.1 for a series of data files with the .mat extension that are in the same directory. It will iterate over them and write the data out to text files with the same name but with the extension .dat . Note that this is not efficient, so if you have a lot of files or if they are large it can take a while to run. I would suggest that you run it from the command line using octave mat2dat.m so you can actually watch it go.
I make no guarantees that this will work for you, but it did for me. I also am NOT proficient in Octave or Matlab, so I'm sure a better solution exists.
# mat2dat.m
dirlist = glob("*.mat")
for i=1:length(dirlist)
filename = dirlist{i,1}
load(filename, "L", "I")
LI = [L,I]
tmpname = filename(1:length(filename)-3)
txtname = strcat(tmpname, 'dat')
save(txtname, "LI")
end

MATLAB - Stitch Together Multiple Files

I am new to MATLAB programming and some of the syntax escapes me. So I need a little help. Plus I need some complex looping ideas.
Here's the breakdown of what I have:
12 seperate .dat files, each titled something like output_1_x.dat, output_2_x.dat, etc.
each file is actually one piece of a whole that was seperated and processed
each .dat file is approx. 3.9 GB
Here's what I need to do:
create a single file containing all the data from each seperate file, i.e. I need to recreate the original file.
call this complete output file something like output_final.dat
it has to be done in MATLAB, there are no other alternatives (actually there maybe; see note below)
What is implied:
I will have to fread each 3.9 GBfile into chunks or packets, probably 100 mb at a time (using an imbedded loop?)
these packets will have to be read then written sequentially
after one file is read then written into output_final.dat, the next file is automatically read & written (the master loop).
Well, that's pretty much it. I did a search for 'merging mulitple files' and found this. That isn't exactly what I need to do...I don't need to take part of a file, or data from files, and write it to a new one. I'm simply...concatenating...? This would be simple in Java or Perl, but I only have MATLAB as a tool.
Note: I am however running KDE in OpenSUSE on a pretty powerful box. Maybe someone who is also an expert in terminal knows a command/script to do this from the kernel?
So on this site we usually would point you to whathaveyoutried.com but this question is well phrased.
I wont write the code but i will give you how I would do it. So first I am a bit confused about why you need to fread the file. Are you just appending one file onto the end of another?
You can actually use unix commands to achieve what you want:
files = dir('*.dat');
for i = 1:length(files)
string = sprintf('cat %s >> output_final.dat.temp', files(i).name);
unix(string);
end
That code should loop through all the files and pipe all of the content into output_final.dat.temp (then just rename it, we didn't want it to be included in anything);
But if you really want to use fread because you want to parse the lines in some manner then you can use the same process:
files = dir('*.dat');
fidF = fopen('output_final.dat', 'w');
for i = 1:length(files)
fid = fopen(files(i).name);
while(~feof(fid))
string = fgetl(fid) %You may choose to parse the string in some manner here
fprintf(fidF, '%s', string)
end
end
Just remember, if you are not parsing the lines this will take much much longer.
Hope this helps.
I suggest using a matlab.io.matfileclass objects on two of the files:
matObj1 = matfile('datafile1.mat')
matObj2 = matfile('datafile2.mat')
This does not load any data into memory. Then you can use the objects' methods to sequentialy save a variable from one file to another.
matObj1.varName = matObj2.varName
You can get all the variables in one file with fieldnames(mathObj1) and loop through to copy contents from one file to another. You can then clear some space by removing the copied fields. Or you can use a bit more risky procedure by directly moving the data:
matObj1.varName = rmfield(matObj2,'varName')
Just a disclaimer: haven't tried it, use at own risk.

Write a figure to a file automatically in MATLAB

Does anyone know if it's possible to automatically write a figure out to a .eps file in MATLAB?
I'm running a script that produces a large number of graphs, and it'd be nice if I didn't have to manually save each one!
print function does that:
Print figure or save to specific file format...
print(filename,formattype) saves the current figure to a file using the specified file format, such as print('BarPlot','-dpng'). If the file name does not include an extension, then print appends the appropriate one.
print(filename,formattype,formatoptions) specifies additional options that are available for some formats.
print prints the current figure to the default printer...
print or saveas will do the trick.
saveas(fig_handle, 'filename','eps')
print('-deps',fig_handle)
print -deps 1
If you want to specify the output file name, you're better off using saveas.
This was answered in this other question, using the PRINT command. Although that question dealt with making .tiff images, it should be straightforward to modify the code given in those answers to write a .eps.
Suppose, you are generating N numbers of figures in a loop, then you should try the command line:
saveas(gca,sprintf('Figure%02d.pdf',N )); it produces N figures Figure1.pdf - FigureN.pdf
saveas(gca,sprintf('Figure%02d.eps',N )); it produces N figures Figure1.eps - FigureN.eps
in place of gca one can use gcf also. First command line is a better solution.
Hope this will solve your issue.