e-lab extra package for Torch7

This package provides extra functions for Torch7 from e-lab, Purdue University

Install

To install this package, use the following command:

$ luarocks make

Short documentation

Useful functions

ls - unix listing command

In order to add eex.ls to the global name space type the following Lua command

require 'eex'
ls = eex.ls

Listing the content of the current directory and fetching the number of elements it contains

ls()
#ls()

Listing the content of a specific directory path (path is a string)

ls(path)

Getting the full file name (file name preceded by its parent directories) of the 3rd PNG image contained in a specific directory path

ls(path .. '/*.png')[3]

eex.datasetsPath - fetches $EEX_DATASETS environment variable

Returns the location of the datasets directory on the current machine. Basically it fetches the $EEX_DATASETS environment variable if existing, otherwise it prompts the user to input the location of the datasets dicrectory. In order to ls the content of the abc-dataset we can do as follow

ds = eex.datasetsPath()
print(ls(ds .. '/abc-dataset'))

License

MIT