SciRuby/sciruby — Issue #8: Save and load .mat files (from Matlab)
Author: mohawkjohn
Created: 2011-11-01 19:45:02+00:00
State: open
Labels: approved feature

SciRuby needs support for saving and loading .mat files, which are created by Matlab.

The framework already exists in the `sparse` branch of the repository (please ignore the sparse_matrix stuff, which is only there for testing purposes). In fact, .mat v5 loading is already mostly working, or appears to. It shouldn't take more than a little more work to get v5 saving to function properly.

* MatFile5Reader needs to be renamed to MatFile5IO, probably.
* The write routines for MatFile5Reader need to be fixed.
* MatFile4Reader/MatFile4IO needs to be written.
* Need to clean up the source (and document) a bit.

Originally I tried to derive it directly from SciPy. That won't work. The old SciPy code may need to be cleaned a bit.