[R] R and reading matlab compressed files

[Suresh Krishna]

One possibility is to save in ASCII format from Matlab (save -ascii)

Suresh

> 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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>> Prof Leslie Smith
>> Computing Science and Maths
>> University of Stirling FK9 4LA
>> Scotland
>> Tel (44) 1786 467435
>>
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