The e1071-group is developping a data exchange package based on XML, called StatDataML. Both read and write functionality is available for R/S and MATLAB/Octave. Now here is a snapshot from the "StatDataML for MATLAB/Octave"-package. It should work fine, but the installation procedure needs some improvement yet. I think the following will nevertheless make it run: 1. Get libxml 2.x from www.xmlsoft.org and install 2. Get the file: matoct.tar.gz from www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~meyer/ and un-tar it in some tmp-dir. 3. make shure that LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS are set correctly for libxml 3. run: configure make MATLAB from within the "matoct"-directory In the subdirectory "matlab", you should obtain: StatdataML.dtd, some .m files and a readsdml.mex?? file 4. run matlab and change your searchpath accordingly 5. try "help writesdml" and "help readsdml" to see the command options. Normally, something like writesdml (object, 'out.sdml') or object = readsdml ('out.sdml') should work. -d -- Mag. David Meyer Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10 Technical University of Vienna A-1040 Vienna/AUSTRIA Department for Statistics, Probability Tel.: (+431) 58801/10772 Theory and Actuarial Mathematics mail: david.meyer at ci.tuwien.ac.at -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._