VBmix (version 0.2.8)

readPixmapFile: readPixmapFile

Description

extracts a list of pixmap objects from the handwritten digits file format provided in references.

Usage

readPixmapFile(name)

Arguments

name

path to the file.

Value

• a list of pixmapGrey objects.

References

LeCun, Y., Bottou, L., Bengio, Y., and Haffner, P. (1998) _Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition_, Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 86, Number 11, Pages 2278-2324.

http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/, repository of the handwritten digits file.

See Also

pixmapGrey

Examples

# use with path to actual train-... file
#temp <- readPixmapFile("data/train-images-idx3-ubyte")