[R] importing data into R from matlab

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> S McClatchie writes:

> Colleagues
> Has anyone out there developed a routine for importing matlab data into 
> R? 
> (if you are not familiar with matlab, see 
> <http://www.mathworks.com/products/tech_computing/>

> A sub-question concerns importing structured variables from matlab. 
> Although you can save variables as an ascii file from matlab, you cannot 
> write a structured variable in matlab into an ascii file without first 
> converting the structured variable to an unstructured form. Superficially 
> the structured variable in matlab corresponds to the data frame concept 
> in S dialects.

> Since matlab is widely used in oceanography, physics and acoustics it 
> might be useful (and interesting?) for someone out there to create a data 
> import function for matlab to R that incorportates the structured variable 
> to data frame conversion.

> Or perhaps one already exists?

I am not aware of one.

I seem to recall similar questions on the octave-help mailing list a few
years ago.  Someone even pointed to technical documentation for the file
format used by Matlab, but I am not sure whether this ever got done.

In any case, do you have a reference which describes the format?

-k
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