Minor Cleanups

BUILD.md

@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ be sure to install virtualenv using your system pip (conda pip is not supported)
 
     ./configure
 
-Running configure will create two sub-directories, release/ and
-debug/ . cd into src/unity under either of these directories and running make will build the
+Running configure will create two sub-directories, `release/` and
+`debug/` . cd into `src/unity` under either of these directories and running make will build the
 release or the debug versions respectively.
 
 We recommend using make’s parallel build feature to accelerate the compilation
@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ process. For instance:
     cd debug/src/unity
     make -j 4
 
-will perform up to 4 build tasks in parallel. When building in release/ mode,
+will perform up to 4 build tasks in parallel. When building in release mode,
 Turi Create does require a large amount of memory to compile with the
 heaviest toolkit requiring 1GB of RAM. Where K is the amount of memory you
-have on your machine in GB, we recommend not exceeding make -j K
+have on your machine in GB, we recommend not exceeding `make -j K`
 
 To use your dev build export these environment variables:
 

INSTALL_ISSUES.md

@@ -1,18 +1,24 @@
-# Common Installation Issues
+# Common Installation Errors and How to Fix
 
-### `I get an error "ImportError /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not found"`
+`ImportError /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not found`
 
 You need an updated libstdc++.so. See [LINUX\_INSTALL.md](LINUX_INSTALL.md) for details.
 
-### `I get an error "ImportError ..  version GLIBCXX\_3.4.21 not defined in libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference"`
+___
+
+`ImportError ..  version GLIBCXX\_3.4.21 not defined in libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference`
 
 You need an updated libstdc++.so. See [LINUX\_INSTALL.md](LINUX_INSTALL.md) for details.
 (Strictly, speaking you have an updated libstdc++.so, but it was not compiled with the cxx11 abi)
 
-### `I get an error "ImportError: libblas.so.3: Cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"`
+___
+
+`ImportError: libblas.so.3: Cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory`
 
 You need to install Blas and Lapack. See [LINUX\_INSTALL.md](LINUX_INSTALL.md) for details.
 
-### `I get an error "ImportError: liblapack.so.3: Cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"`
+___
+
+`ImportError: liblapack.so.3: Cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory`
 
 You need to install Blas and Lapack. See [LINUX\_INSTALL.md](LINUX_INSTALL.md) for details.

src/fileio/curl_downloader.hpp

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 namespace turi {
 /**
  * \ingroup fileio
- * Downlaods a given URL into a given output file
+ * Downloads a given URL into a given output file
  * \code
  * retcode = download_url("http://google.com", "google.html");
  * \endcode

src/image/image_type.hpp

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class image_type {
   boost::shared_ptr<char[]> m_image_data;
   /// The height of the image 
   size_t m_height = 0;
-  /// The width of the image*
+  /// The width of the image
   size_t m_width = 0; 
   /// The number of channels in the image: Grayscale = 1, RGB = 3, RGBA = 4.
   size_t m_channels = 0;

test/toolkits/supervised_learning/logistic_regression_tests.cxx

@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ void run_logistic_regression_test(std::map<std::string, flexible_type> opts) {
 
   // Construct the ml_data
   ml_data data = model->construct_ml_data_using_current_metadata(X, y);
-  ml_data valid_data;
 
   // Check coefficients & options
   // ----------------------------------------------------------------------

test/toolkits/supervised_learning/random_forest_tests.cxx

@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ void run_random_forest_classifier_test(std::map<std::string, flexible_type> opts
 
   // Construct the ml_data
   ml_data data = model->construct_ml_data_using_current_metadata(X, y);
-  ml_data valid_data;
 
   // Check predictions
   // ----------------------------------------------------------------------