Importing the Mahout source code into Eclipse

It's a good idea to look at the source code of Mahout, as it will give you additional insights into the working of machine learning algorithms and Mahout commands. In this section, we will be exploring and modifying some of the source files of Mahout. For that, we need to import the source code into Eclipse. Mahout source code is packaged in Maven and if all the configuration steps of Chapter 1, Introduction to Mahout, were followed, we should be ready to import the source code into Eclipse.

Let's start with downloading the code folder. Please go to the URL http://archive.apache.org/dist/mahout/0.9 and download the file mahout-distribution-0.9-src.tar.gz. Ideally the file should be copied to the Eclipse ...

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