[R] calling Matlab

[Warnes, Gregory R]

Matlab does provide a C/C++ API, so it should not be difficult to write a
driver to interface between the two.  There is already a Matlab driver for
Python, for instance.

-Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Scholl [mailto:scholl at yubc.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:51 AM
> To: Liaw, Andy; Rhelp questions list
> Subject: Re: [R] calling Matlab
> 
> 
> To clarify, based on the other responses that I've gotten: I 
> already have a
> version of Matlab on my pc (it's the student version, but it 
> does what I
> need - I've been thinking to buy the complete version as well 
> if I can rob a
> bank sometime soon) and I've got Gauss code I wrote when I 
> was working on
> that system for the computation, say, of GMM models.  Anyway, 
> Barry Quinn's
> recent Estimation and Tracking of Frequency book has some 
> great matlab code
> and there are many programs that I've written on my own that 
> are just a pain
> to do over again in R.  The main problem is that I'd like to 
> be able to
> easily transfer data back and forth between the two systems 
> in code (and
> maybe call a few of my matlab routines in R too).
> 
> For example (in case I'm babbling), I might compute the 
> periodogram using R,
> then use Chiu's (1989) procedure I'd determine peaks.  Using those
> frequencies I could estimate a sum-of-cosines regression in 
> Matlab very
> easily and nicely using Quinn's code, which would then give 
> me the residuals
> from the regression, the periodogram of which I could plot 
> very nicely in R.
> I'd love to do all this without 1. saving + loading the data 
> umpteen times
> manually (then running the code on the respective systems in 
> sequence); or
> 2. reprogramming everything in R or Matlab.
> 
> Thank you for all your help.
> 
> Brian
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com>
> To: "'Brian Scholl'" <scholl at yubc.net>; "Rhelp questions list"
> <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:59 PM
> Subject: RE: [R] calling Matlab
> 
> 
> > Both Matlab and Gauss are proprietary software.  Even 
> before considering
> the
> > technical possibility of such link, you may want to read the license
> > agreements for those packages and see if it's even legal to do so.
> >
> > Just my $0.02...
> > Andy
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Brian Scholl [mailto:scholl at yubc.net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:41 AM
> > > To: Rhelp questions list
> > > Subject: [R] calling Matlab
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a way to call Matlab and Gauss code in R?  I see
> > > functions that
> > > work for C/FORTRAN, but not for other languages.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
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