Statiscial analysys and machine learning on the mnist dataset, for the pattern recognition course:

Algorithm	R Package	Function(s)
(regularized) Multinomial Logit	nnet,glmnet	multinom, glmnet, cv.glmnet
Support Vector Machine	e1071	svm
Neural Networks	nnet	nnet
Parameter Tuning	e1071	tune.svm, tune.nnet

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Course page: http://www.cs.uu.nl/docs/vakken/mpr/computer-labR.php