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Re: Uniting IDL and Matlab [message #48411]

Tue, 18 April 2006 15:24

George N. White III is currently offline

George N. White III
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Ben Tupper wrote:

> ChristopherFlorio@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm currently at a point where I have to make an IDL program generate a
>> Matlab friendly array of data points. I don't know much about Matlab
>> and the last postings here, on the subject of IDL/Matlab exchange are
>> out of date. If anyone has any information about how to simplify the
>> process, let me know.
>>
> Hi,
>
> Long ago Nick Wolfe and I wrote a simple IDL <-> MatLab generic file exchange
> system. It worked fine for use to share simple arrays and the like. It
> handles the row vs. column major and big vs. little endian issues. If you
> send me an email I will post it to you.
>
> You might have better success using the scientific data format approach that
> Jan suggested. You'll know best when you try it.

People are using data from NASA SeaDAS, an IDL app that generates hdf
(ver. 4) files, with Matlab and R (the S+ clone). AFAIK, Matlab can read
hdf(4 and 5) while R has only the hdf5 module so h4toh5 is needed. If you
have the choice, hdf ver. 5 is recommended for new implementations.

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George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>

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		Re: Uniting IDL and Matlab By: btt on Tue, 18 April 2006 06:29
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