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farff

A Faster 'ARFF' File Reader and Writer

v1.1.1 · May 10, 2021 · BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE

Description

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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Version History

new 1.1.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.1.1 ← 1.1 diff May 10, 2021
updated 1.1 ← 1.0 diff May 2, 2019
new 1.0 Sep 10, 2016