Re: data exchange with R?

[Steven G. Johnson]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Daniel Kottow wrote:
> i am looking at the statistical programming env R, which may be familiar
> to many. certainly interesting, has vectors and object-oriented data
> types... 
> i was wondering if anyone knows about some data exchange scripts between
> R and octave.

There are plugins to let R import/export its data in the standard HDF5
format (according to http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/tools5.html), and I wrote a
patch to let Octave use HDF5 files as a native binary file format
(see http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/mailing-lists/octave-sources/2000/15).

Right now, you have to apply this patch yourself to the CVS sources (or
maybe it will work on the 2.1.x development sources).  Hopefully, it will
be integrated soon into 2.1.x by JWE, and Octave will reap the benefits of
supporting a standard file format for scientific data.

Cordially,
Steven G. Johnson



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