[SPARK-23046][ML][SparkR] Have RFormula include VectorSizeHint in pipeline

R/pkg/R/mllib_utils.R

@@ -130,3 +130,4 @@ read.ml <- function(path) {
     stop("Unsupported model: ", jobj)
   }
 }
+

mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/RFormula.scala

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path
 import org.apache.spark.annotation.{Experimental, Since}
 import org.apache.spark.ml.{Estimator, Model, Pipeline, PipelineModel, PipelineStage, Transformer}
 import org.apache.spark.ml.attribute.AttributeGroup
-import org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.VectorUDT
+import org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.{Vector, VectorUDT}
 import org.apache.spark.ml.param.{BooleanParam, Param, ParamMap, ParamValidators}
 import org.apache.spark.ml.param.shared.{HasFeaturesCol, HasHandleInvalid, HasLabelCol}
 import org.apache.spark.ml.util._
@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ class RFormula @Since("1.5.0") (@Since("1.5.0") override val uid: String)
 
     // First we index each string column referenced by the input terms.
     val indexed: Map[String, String] = resolvedFormula.terms.flatten.distinct.map { term =>
-      dataset.schema(term) match {
-        case column if column.dataType == StringType =>
+      dataset.schema(term).dataType match {
+        case _: StringType =>
           val indexCol = tmpColumn("stridx")
           encoderStages += new StringIndexer()
             .setInputCol(term)
@@ -220,6 +220,18 @@ class RFormula @Since("1.5.0") (@Since("1.5.0") override val uid: String)
             .setHandleInvalid($(handleInvalid))
           prefixesToRewrite(indexCol + "_") = term + "_"
           (term, indexCol)
+        case _: VectorUDT =>
+          val group = AttributeGroup.fromStructField(dataset.schema(term))
+          val size = if (group.size < 0) {
+            dataset.select(term).first().getAs[Vector](0).size
+          } else {
+            group.size
+          }
+          encoderStages += new VectorSizeHint(uid)
+            .setHandleInvalid("optimistic")
+            .setInputCol(term)
+            .setSize(size)
+          (term, term)
         case _ =>
           (term, term)
       }

mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/RFormulaSuite.scala

@@ -17,15 +17,15 @@
 
 package org.apache.spark.ml.feature
 
-import org.apache.spark.{SparkException, SparkFunSuite}
+import org.apache.spark.SparkException
 import org.apache.spark.ml.attribute._
-import org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.Vectors
+import org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.{Vector, Vectors}
 import org.apache.spark.ml.param.ParamsSuite
-import org.apache.spark.ml.util.{DefaultReadWriteTest, MLTestingUtils}
-import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLlibTestSparkContext
+import org.apache.spark.ml.util.{DefaultReadWriteTest, MLTest, MLTestingUtils}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.{DataFrame, Encoder, Row}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.DoubleType
 
-class RFormulaSuite extends SparkFunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext with DefaultReadWriteTest {
+class RFormulaSuite extends MLTest with DefaultReadWriteTest {
 
   import testImplicits._
 
@@ -548,4 +548,31 @@ class RFormulaSuite extends SparkFunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext with Defaul
     assert(result3.collect() === expected3.collect())
     assert(result4.collect() === expected4.collect())
   }
+
+  test("Use Vectors as inputs to formula.") {
+    val original = Seq(
+      (1, 4, Vectors.dense(0.0, 0.0, 4.0)),
+      (2, 4, Vectors.dense(1.0, 0.0, 4.0)),
+      (3, 5, Vectors.dense(1.0, 0.0, 5.0)),
+      (4, 5, Vectors.dense(0.0, 1.0, 5.0))
+    ).toDF("id", "a", "b")
+    val formula = new RFormula().setFormula("id ~ a + b")
+    val (first +: rest) = Seq("id", "a", "b", "features", "label")
+    testTransformer[(Int, Int, Vector)](original, formula.fit(original), first, rest: _*) {
+      case Row(id: Int, a: Int, b: Vector, features: Vector, label: Double) =>
+        assert(label === id)
+        assert(features.toArray === a +: b.toArray)
+    }
+
+    val group = new AttributeGroup("b", 3)
+    val vectorColWithMetadata = original("b").as("b", group.toMetadata())
+    val dfWithMetadata = original.withColumn("b", vectorColWithMetadata)
+    val model = formula.fit(dfWithMetadata)
+    // model should work even when applied to dataframe without metadata.
+    testTransformer[(Int, Int, Vector)](original, model, first, rest: _*) {
+      case Row(id: Int, a: Int, b: Vector, features: Vector, label: Double) =>
+        assert(label === id)
+        assert(features.toArray === a +: b.toArray)
+    }
+  }
 }