/**
   * ************************************************** Convert a table to a set of instances, with
   * <b>columns</b> representing individual </b>instances</b> and <b>rows</b> representing
   * <b>attributes</b> (e.g. as is common with microarray data)
   */
  public Instances tableColsToInstances(Table t, String relationName) {

    System.err.print("Converting table cols to instances...");

    // Set up attributes, which for colInstances will be the rowNames...
    FastVector atts = new FastVector();
    ArrayList<Boolean> isNominal = new ArrayList<Boolean>();
    ArrayList<FastVector> allAttVals = new ArrayList<FastVector>(); // Save values for later...

    System.err.print("creating attributes...");

    for (int r = 0; r < t.numRows; r++) {
      if (rowIsNumeric(t, r)) {
        isNominal.add(false);
        atts.addElement(new Attribute(t.rowNames[r]));
        allAttVals.add(null); // No enumeration of attribute values.
      } else {
        // It's nominal... determine the range of values and create a nominal attribute...
        isNominal.add(true);
        FastVector attVals = getRowValues(t, r);
        atts.addElement(new Attribute(t.rowNames[r], attVals));
        // Save it for later
        allAttVals.add(attVals);
      }
    }

    System.err.print("creating instances...");

    // Create Instances object..
    Instances data = new Instances(relationName, atts, 0);
    data.setRelationName(relationName);

    /** ***** CREATE INSTANCES ************* */
    // Fill the instances with data...
    // For each instance...
    for (int c = 0; c < t.numCols; c++) {
      double[] vals =
          new double[data.numAttributes()]; // Even nominal values are stored as double pointers.

      // For each attribute fill in the numeric or attributeValue index...
      for (int r = 0; r < t.numRows; r++) {
        String val = (String) t.matrix.getQuick(r, c);
        if (val == "?") vals[r] = Instance.missingValue();
        else if (isNominal.get(r)) {
          vals[r] = allAttVals.get(r).indexOf(val);
        } else {
          vals[r] = Double.parseDouble((String) val);
        }
      }
      // Add the a newly minted instance with those attribute values...
      data.add(new Instance(1.0, vals));
    }

    System.err.print("add feature names...");

    /** ***** ADD FEATURE NAMES ************* */
    // takes basically zero time... all time is in previous 2 chunks.
    if (addInstanceNamesAsFeatures) {
      Instances newData = new Instances(data);
      newData.insertAttributeAt(new Attribute("ID", (FastVector) null), 0);
      int attrIdx = newData.attribute("ID").index(); // Paranoid... should be 0

      // We save the instanceNames in a list because it's handy later on...
      instanceNames = new ArrayList<String>();

      for (int c = 0; c < t.colNames.length; c++) {
        instanceNames.add(t.colNames[c]);
        newData.instance(c).setValue(attrIdx, t.colNames[c]);
      }
      data = newData;
    }

    System.err.println("done.");

    return (data);
  }
  /**
   * ************************************************** Convert a table to a set of instances, with
   * <b>rows</b> representing individual </b>instances</b> and <b>columns</b> representing
   * <b>attributes</b>
   */
  public Instances tableRowsToNominalInstances(Table t, String relationName) {

    System.err.print("Converting table rows to instances...");

    // Set up attributes, which for rowInstances will be the colNames...
    FastVector atts = new FastVector();
    ArrayList<Boolean> isNominal = new ArrayList<Boolean>();
    ArrayList<FastVector> allAttVals = new ArrayList<FastVector>(); // Save values for later...			

    System.err.print("creating attributes...");

    for (int c = 0; c < t.numCols; c++) {
      // It's nominal... determine the range of values
      isNominal.add(true);
      FastVector attVals = getColValues(t, c);
      atts.addElement(new Attribute(t.colNames[c], attVals));
      // Save it for later
      allAttVals.add(attVals);
    }

    System.err.print("creating instances...");

    // Create Instances object..
    Instances data = new Instances(relationName, atts, 0);
    data.setRelationName(relationName);

    // Fill the instances with data...
    // For each instance...
    for (int r = 0; r < t.numRows; r++) {
      double[] vals = new double[data.numAttributes()];

      // for each attribute
      for (int c = 0; c < t.numCols; c++) {
        String val = (String) t.matrix.getQuick(r, c);
        if (val == "?") vals[c] = Instance.missingValue();
        else if (isNominal.get(c)) {
          vals[c] = allAttVals.get(c).indexOf(val);
        } else {
          vals[c] = Double.parseDouble((String) val);
        }
      }
      // Add the a newly minted instance with those attribute values...
      data.add(new Instance(1.0, vals));
    }

    System.err.print("add feature names...");

    if (addInstanceNamesAsFeatures) {
      Instances newData = new Instances(data);
      newData.insertAttributeAt(new Attribute("ID", (FastVector) null), 0);
      int attrIdx = newData.attribute("ID").index(); // Paranoid... should be 0

      // We save the instanceNames in a list because it's handy later on...
      instanceNames = new ArrayList<String>();

      for (int r = 0; r < t.rowNames.length; r++) {
        instanceNames.add(t.rowNames[r]);
        newData.instance(r).setValue(attrIdx, t.rowNames[r]);
      }
      data = newData;
    }

    System.err.println("done.");

    return (data);
  }