How to read MNIST database in R?

Question

I\'m currently working on a case study for which I need to work on the MNIST database.
The files in this site are said to be in IDX file format. I tried to take a look at th

Answer 1

MNIST dataset is also available in the keras package.

library(keras)
mnist <- dataset_mnist()
x_train <- mnist$train$x
y_train <- mnist$train$y
x_test <- mnist$test$x
y_test <- mnist$test$y