[SPARK-2479 (partial)][MLLIB] fix binary metrics unit tests

Allow small errors in comparison.

@dbtsai , this unit test blocks apache#1562 . I may need to merge this one first. We can change it to use the tools in apache#1425 after that PR gets merged.

Author: Xiangrui Meng <[email protected]>

Closes apache#1576 from mengxr/fix-binary-metrics-unit-tests and squashes the following commits:

5076a7f [Xiangrui Meng] fix binary metrics unit tests

mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/BinaryClassificationMetricsSuite.scala

@@ -20,8 +20,26 @@ package org.apache.spark.mllib.evaluation
 import org.scalatest.FunSuite
 
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.LocalSparkContext
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.TestingUtils.DoubleWithAlmostEquals
 
 class BinaryClassificationMetricsSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
+
+  // TODO: move utility functions to TestingUtils.
+
+  def elementsAlmostEqual(actual: Seq[Double], expected: Seq[Double]): Boolean = {
+    actual.zip(expected).forall { case (x1, x2) =>
+      x1.almostEquals(x2)
+    }
+  }
+
+  def elementsAlmostEqual(
+      actual: Seq[(Double, Double)],
+      expected: Seq[(Double, Double)])(implicit dummy: DummyImplicit): Boolean = {
+    actual.zip(expected).forall { case ((x1, y1), (x2, y2)) =>
+      x1.almostEquals(x2) && y1.almostEquals(y2)
+    }
+  }
+
   test("binary evaluation metrics") {
     val scoreAndLabels = sc.parallelize(
       Seq((0.1, 0.0), (0.1, 1.0), (0.4, 0.0), (0.6, 0.0), (0.6, 1.0), (0.6, 1.0), (0.8, 1.0)), 2)
@@ -41,14 +59,14 @@ class BinaryClassificationMetricsSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
     val prCurve = Seq((0.0, 1.0)) ++ pr
     val f1 = pr.map { case (r, p) => 2.0 * (p * r) / (p + r) }
     val f2 = pr.map { case (r, p) => 5.0 * (p * r) / (4.0 * p + r)}
-    assert(metrics.thresholds().collect().toSeq === threshold)
-    assert(metrics.roc().collect().toSeq === rocCurve)
-    assert(metrics.areaUnderROC() === AreaUnderCurve.of(rocCurve))
-    assert(metrics.pr().collect().toSeq === prCurve)
-    assert(metrics.areaUnderPR() === AreaUnderCurve.of(prCurve))
-    assert(metrics.fMeasureByThreshold().collect().toSeq === threshold.zip(f1))
-    assert(metrics.fMeasureByThreshold(2.0).collect().toSeq === threshold.zip(f2))
-    assert(metrics.precisionByThreshold().collect().toSeq === threshold.zip(precision))
-    assert(metrics.recallByThreshold().collect().toSeq === threshold.zip(recall))
+    assert(elementsAlmostEqual(metrics.thresholds().collect(), threshold))
+    assert(elementsAlmostEqual(metrics.roc().collect(), rocCurve))
+    assert(metrics.areaUnderROC().almostEquals(AreaUnderCurve.of(rocCurve)))
+    assert(elementsAlmostEqual(metrics.pr().collect(), prCurve))
+    assert(metrics.areaUnderPR().almostEquals(AreaUnderCurve.of(prCurve)))
+    assert(elementsAlmostEqual(metrics.fMeasureByThreshold().collect(), threshold.zip(f1)))
+    assert(elementsAlmostEqual(metrics.fMeasureByThreshold(2.0).collect(), threshold.zip(f2)))
+    assert(elementsAlmostEqual(metrics.precisionByThreshold().collect(), threshold.zip(precision)))
+    assert(elementsAlmostEqual(metrics.recallByThreshold().collect(), threshold.zip(recall)))
   }
 }