R/loadMNIST.R

In softmaxreg: Training Multi-Layer Neural Network for Softmax Regression and Classification

## Reuse the loadMNIST data method from:
## brendan o'connor - gist.github.com/39760 - anyall.org

load_image_file <- function(filename) {
    ret = list()
    f = file(filename,'rb')
    readBin(f,'integer',n=1,size=4,endian='big')
    ret$n = readBin(f,'integer',n=1,size=4,endian='big')
    nrow = readBin(f,'integer',n=1,size=4,endian='big')
    ncol = readBin(f,'integer',n=1,size=4,endian='big')
    x = readBin(f,'integer',n=ret$n*nrow*ncol,size=1,signed=F)
    res = matrix(x, ncol=nrow*ncol, byrow=T)
    close(f)
    res
}

load_label_file <- function(filename) {
    f = file(filename,'rb')
    readBin(f,'integer',n=1,size=4,endian='big')
    n = readBin(f,'integer',n=1,size=4,endian='big')
    y = readBin(f,'integer',n=n,size=1,signed=F)
    close(f)
    y
}

show_digit <- function(arr784, col=gray(12:1/12), ...) {
  image(matrix(arr784, nrow=28)[,28:1], col=col, ...)
}