Animation for logistic regression, first 20 epochs

[Michael Reach]

Just practicing animations. Must be a better way to do it: Installed "animation" package in R. Used saveHtml option. Took that link to makegif.com. That created a link with a gif in it. Used Chrome developer tools to extract the gif from the web page, and saved it on my disk. Then used postimage.org to save the image back on a link [now it's an image, not a web page with a image in it]. Then posted [img]lnk[/img] here.

[yaser]

Originally Posted by Michael Reach

Just practicing animations. Must be a better way to do it: Installed "animation" package in R. Used saveHtml option. Took that link to makegif.com. That created a link with a gif in it. Used Chrome developer tools to extract the gif from the web page, and saved it on my disk. Then used postimage.org to save the image back on a link [now it's an image, not a web page with a image in it]. Then posted [img]lnk[/img] here.

On my system, it shows the final epoch only.

[Michael Reach]

I work on several machines. On some it shows the whole animation, on others just the last epoch. Dunno.

Huh: Found this
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17126
on a Mozilla forum, which reports a similar bug in IE and Mozilla (I was using Chrome). Thread goes on forever, but some kind of browser issue with animated gif files.

[jlaurentum]

Hello Michael:

What I do is generate a bunch of png graphic files sequentually numbered. Within the R script, I then invoke this

system("convert -delay 30 *.png youranimation.gif")

This "convert" command is available with ImageMagick, which is a package for Linux. I'm not sure if its available for windows, but if it is, you should install it because its pretty handy.

[Michael Reach]

Yeah, the animation package mentions that you need something like InstaMagick. I'll try that - it is available for Windows. Thanks.

[Elroch]

If it's any help, it's failed to animate on Chrome, Safari, Firefox and IE on my machine.

Looking forward to seeing it when you repost!

[I've noticed it's only 37.5 kb. I suspect this means it cannot be the intended animation, as that would be less than 2k per frame with a moderately complex image]

[Michael Reach]

"Looking forward to seeing it when you repost!"
Heh - you're already starting on the next homework! This is mainly of interest to me, and mostly for the practice doing animations.