[Rcpp-devel] R.e. Using Rcpp and MATLAB MAT-File API to Read MAT Files

[Elliot Joel Bernstein]

Dale -

Thank you for the suggestion. I have MATLAB and the MATLAB libraries, and I
am not looking to redistribute anything. I just have a lot of data in MAT
files that I would like to be able to load analyze in R. I am able to
compile and link against the MATLAB libraries, but the code crashes when I
run it. I looked into the Octave FAQ. It looks like they don't handle v7.3
files either, and I don't think they provide an API that I could access
from R/C++.

- Elliot

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Dale Smith <DSmith at nexidia.com> wrote:

> mat.h is a header file which comes with MATLAB. I don't think the license
> allows redistribution, and you would not be able to compile without the
> MATLAB libraries.
>
> An alternative may be Octave since it will read .mat files. Perhaps
> someone can email the name of the header file used from the Octave
> distribution?
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9915658/how-do-you-open-mat-files-in-octave
>
> This also offers a viable way to test this type of code for those who
> don't have MATLAB.
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rcpp-devel-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org [mailto:
> rcpp-devel-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org] On Behalf Of Christian
> Gunning
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 8:08 AM
> To: rcpp-devel at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
> Subject: [Rcpp-devel] R.e. Using Rcpp and MATLAB MAT-File API to Read MAT
> Files
>
> Can you provide a link to the mat.h file referenced in the source (which I
> assume is the same as the API mentioned below)?
>
> Also, see Dirk's comments about compilers here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10723165/using-visual-c-with-r
> and here:
> dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp/Rcpp-FAQ.pdf
>
> Best,
> Christian
>
> > I'm trying to use the MATLAB Mat-File API to read data from MAT files
> > into R. (I've tried using the R.matlab package, but the matrices I'm
> > loading can be very large, and that method was too slow. In addition,
> > some of the files I'm loading are v7.3 MAT files, which are not
> > supported by the package.) I wrote the following simple function to
> > start testing. It works fine if I compile without the Rcpp parts in
> > Visual Studio (i.e. I can call matOpen and get a nonzero pointer), but
> > when I run in R it crashes my R session without displaying "Test".
> >
> > #include <Rcpp.h>
> > #include "mat.h"
> >
> > using namespace Rcpp;
> >
> > // [[Rcpp::export]]
> > NumericVector rcpp_mat_load() {
> >
> >     MATFile* mf = matOpen("z:/temp/test.mat", "r");
> >     printf("Test\n");
> >     double val = 10;
> >     NumericVector y = NumericVector::create(val);
> >     return y;
> > }
>
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