How to add operator for rapidminer

Question

everyone

Thanks for reading my question. I am doing a project with Rapidminer, I have to add a new algorithm as a operator in Rapidminer, I'm just a beginner, I have been read some docs about this, but I still don't know how to do it, so I need your help to give some solutions.

What I know now, we have two solutions to add or change a operator

1. click right button on a operator which exist already in Rapidminer's operators.
2. import Rapidminer project in Eclipse

But, I just download Rapidminer, I didn't found the operation 'edit source code' when I clicked right button on a operator.

And if I import the project, whether I have to import the whole project on github? Or I just need import some jars.

Once I finish my 'operator', I just need to export the jar of my 'operator' and put it in the folder of 'plugin' in the location of installation Rapidminer? If just like what I say, It will be not easy for debug...?

Please give me some suggestions about my project as you can. Thank you very much.

Jiang

Answer 1

Just to summarize the suggested solution: the RapidMiner documentation page suggest How to extend RapidMiner, although the sources are no longer available (probably to be updated to RapidMiner 6). An alternative location for the sources is http://activeintelligence.org/blog/archive/extending-rapidminer/ with the http://activeintelligence.org/var/RapidMiner_Extension_Template.zip template project. Here is the template: https://github.com/rapidminer/rapidminer-extension-template (according to this post.)