Package MNIST not found

Specific Domains Machine Learning
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Attempting to follow the example on

https://fluxml.ai/Flux.jl/v0.2/examples/logreg.html

for ‘Simple MNIST’ the package ‘MNIST’ cannot be found using Pkg.add

[ I have spent hours just trying to run the first line of this ‘simple’ tutorial]

Thanks for any help [also for my students]

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It looks like the package isn’t in the general registry, try installing it by doing:

pkg> add "https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/MNIST.jl"
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Thank you so much!!! [Maybe this should be added to the page]

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cc @MikeInnes

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I believe MNIST is included in Flux. Examples from the Flux model zoo load MNIST with

using Flux.Data.MNIST

One example is https://github.com/FluxML/model-zoo/blob/master/vision/mnist/mlp.jl