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Hi I am using Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit, R as below, Matlab 7.6.0. I would like to transfer mat files back and forward between R and Matlab. Whilst I have used Matlab for years its been a long time since I have used R (hence question may be a bit simple) Running code A <- c(1:10) dim(A) <- c(2,5) library(R.matlab) writeMat('A.mat', A=A) Does not appear to generate any mat file

I would like to load the producer price indexes of BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) into R: For example, Commodity Data in http://www.bls.gov/ppi/ There are many tables there. I was wondering if you knew some R-package/function that can do this or any basic idea onwriting functions to load data that can be loaded from web. Thanks, -james