No documentation about what the data types represent

[Nepomuceno]

How can I choose the data type with no information about what each one of those represent? What is UG what is R4?

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• ID: fbe7af6f-d0db-6da8-5e2c-301750a3695d
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• Content: DataKind Enum (Microsoft.ML.Runtime.Data)
• Content Source: dotnet/xml/Microsoft.ML.Runtime.Data/DataKind.xml
• Product: dotnet-ml-api
• GitHub Login: @sfilipi
• Microsoft Alias: johalex

[Mcgrady2009]

https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues/9278
you can see this url

[mairaw]

Thanks for your feedback @Nepomuceno.
@sfilipi @JRAlexander the duplicate item of this issue had quite a few thumbs-up. Is that something you can add /// comments for?

[cihanyakar]

A small info:
U means unsigned => in c# U1:byte, U2:ushort, U4:uint, U8:ulong UG or U16:Microsoft.ML.Data.RowId
I means signed Integer => in c# I1:sbyte, I2:short, I4:int, I8: long
R means real numbers => in c# R4 or Num:float, R8:double
TX, TXT, Text => in c# string or ReadOnlyMemory
BL,Bool => in c# bool
TS,TimeSpan => in c# TimeSpan
DT => in c# DateTime
DZ => in c# DateTimeOffset

[mairaw]

Closing this one since issue opened by @sfilipi also got closed.

API docs is now at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.ml.data.datakind?view=ml-dotnet.