Re: data exchange with R?

[Thomas Hoffmann]

> i was wondering if anyone knows about some data exchange scripts between 
> R and octave.  there is something incipient in the R package e1071 which 
> permits R to read a (the first) matrix from an octave data file.  
> R handles complete data.frames which is like a database table where each 
> column has its own name and data type and they get saved all together as 
> an ASCII matrix.  
Because the data types of R and Octave are not fully equivalent (only
matrices up to 2 dims, no "factors" in Octave ...), you have to limit yourself
to a subset of the types or have to invent a translation mechanism.  For quick
reading of Octave (ASCII) data into R, read.table() with its options may be
sufficient.  Look for scan() and read.fwf(), too.


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Thomas Hoffmann, Institut fuer Halbleiter- und Mikrosystemtechnik, TU Dresden
E-mail:  address@hidden



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