[R] R and reading matlab compressed files

John C Frain
Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:18:29 -0000

According to the Octave manual (page 146 of Edition 3 for Octave
version 2.9.16) Octave can read Matlab version 7 files.  It can also
output with similar options to Matlab.  As there are no issues or
licencing problems when running Octave and R on the one machine.  Note
that there is a new native Windows version of Octave now available
that does not require cygwin.

Best Reards

John

On 17/11/2007, Prof Leslie Smith <lss at cs.stir.ac.uk>
wrote:
> Is there any way to read these files (standard .mat files, created by
> matlab version 7 onwards are compressed)? I know that R.matlab doesn't
> read them (it even says in the file MatlabServer.m "Matlab v7 saves
> compressed files, which is not recognized by R.matlab's readMat()"
(lines
> 47-8)).
>
> I know I should be able to make R call Matlab and transfer data (not that
> I managed to make it work yet!), but I'd rather not run Matlab & R
> together: I'd like to use R to read matlab files on machines not
licensed
> for matlab!
>
> Are there any ways to make this work?
>
> --Leslie Smith
>
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