[Guide] TopMine-R-wrapper

October 26, 2022 
https://github.com/josescuderoh/TopMine-R-wrapper

As a green hand, who wants to try the TopMine algorithm in R

  • unfamiliar with java or c++
  • little information about TopMine online, and http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~elkishk2/ is a 404 error.

This TopMine-R-wrapper is the first choice, essentially, there are some problems in running the algorithm.

  • system environment, install JAVA and Python, etc.
  • missing some .class files
  • …

It’s my personal experience of how to run it successfully in 2022. Maybe, it can help someone avoid being stuck for a long time.

1. System environment

  • Window 10
  • JAVA(MALLET, GNU, ORG)
  • Python
  • R/RStuido

1.1 JAVA

1.1.1 install JAVA, MALLET, ANT

search “install MALLET WINDOWS” Keywords online to get more detail

1.1.1.1 JAVA

  • DOWNLOAD :https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/ I USE version 19

1.1.1.2 MALLET

MALLET is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.

  • DOWNLOAD: https://mallet.cs.umass.edu/download.php
  • Extract it to the C:/
  • rename mallet-xxx to mallet

I USE VERSION 2.0.8

1.1.1.3 Apache Ant

Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool that help building software

  • DOWNLOAD: https://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi Extract it to the C:/Program Files

I USE VERSION 1.10.12

1.1.2 SET Environment Variables

Computer\Control Panel\System and Security\System\Advanced system setting

System Properties\Environment Variables

1.1.2.1 JAVA

– New add:

variable name: JAVA_HOME
variable value: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-19\bin

– Path > Edit > New add

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-19\bin

note: jdk-xx, local version

1.1.2.2 Mallet

– New add:

variable name: MALLET_HOME
variable value: C:\mallet

– Path > Edit > New add

%MALLET_HOME%\bin

**- classpath > Edit > New add **

MALLET_HOME%/class;%MALLET_HOME%lib;%MALLET_HOME%/lib/mallet-deps.jar

note: if there’s no classpath , create one .

1.1.2.3 Mallet

– New add:

variable name: ANT_HOME
variable value: C:\Program Files\apache-ant

– Path > Edit > New add

%ANT_HOME%\bin

**- classpath > Edit > New add **

%ANT_HOME%lib

note: variable value of classpath are delimited by “;”

1.2 Python

search “install python WINDOWS” Keywords online to get more detail

1.2.1 install Python

Download: https://www.python.org/downloads/

I USE VERSION 3.10.8

1.2.2 SET Environment Variables

**- Path > Edit > New add 2 Variables **

C:\Program Files\Python310\Scripts

C:\Program Files\Python310

note: Pythonxxx, local version

1.3 R/RStudio

search “install R WINDOWS” Keywords online to get more detail

2. get .class files

these files are updated to ..\TopMine-R-wrapper\ToPMine\topicalPhrases\bin

WHY & HOW, as follows

run in R , it throw errors:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: cc/mallet/types/Dirichlet
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: cc/mallet/pipe/Pipe
....
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/trove/TObjectIntHashMap
....
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/tartarus/snowball/ext/englishStemmer
....

2.1 mallet

compile MALLET with Apache Ant

  • run CMD
  • type cd c:\mallet, press Enter
  • type ant, press Enter
C:\Users\user>cd c:\mallet

c:\mallet>ant
Buildfile: c:\mallet\build.xml

init:
     [copy] Copying 1 file to c:\mallet\class

compile:
    [javac] c:\mallet\build.xml:62: warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set, defaulting to build.sysclasspath=last; set to false for repeatable builds

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second

Copy folder to TopMine-R-wrapper

  • Copy C:\mallet\class\cc
  • Paste to..\TopMine-R-wrapper\ToPMine\topicalPhrases\bin

note: in this repo, bin contains cc folder

2.2 gnu/trove

Download: https://trove4j.sourceforge.net/html/overview.html

select the old release version : trove-2.1.0.tar.gz

note: some files or paths have been changed in higher version

uncompress and copy folder to TopMine-R-wrapper

  • Copy : ..\trove-2.1.0\lib\trove-2.1.0.jar\gnu
  • Paste to..\TopMine-R-wrapper\ToPMine\topicalPhrases\bin

note: in this repo, bin contains gnu folder

2.3 Snowball

Download: http://snowball.tartarus.org/download.html

**compile **

  • Copy : ..\org
  • Paste to..\TopMine-R-wrapper\ToPMine\topicalPhrases\bin

note: in this repo, bin contains org folder

3. Run in R

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R topmine
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