R Observatory: Metrics for R.matlab version 3.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

R.matlab

3.7.0

Read and Write MAT Files and Call MATLAB from Within R

26packages depend

130.3Kdownloads / year

84.9%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik BengtssonFirst published 2005-02-2559 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Methods readMat() and writeMat() for reading and writing MAT files. For user with MATLAB v6 or newer installed (either locally or on a remote host), the package also provides methods for controlling MATLAB (trademark) via R and sending and retrieving data between R and MATLAB.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("R.matlab", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("HenrikBengtsson/R.matlab")

Development version from HenrikBengtsson/R.matlab. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-r.matlab

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-R.matlab

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-R.matlab

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-macos-arm64
NOTE r-release-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 18.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.17

84.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 79%
References docs: 10%

Downloads

130.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,220 · ~357/day · ~10.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

7.3K30 days

26.6K90 days

130.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on295 r2u26 autocran2.2K conda_forge80 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ henrikbengtsson/r.matlab

90Stars

22Forks

13Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

392Commits

8Contributors

rmatlabpackage

392 commits · Last activity 2022-08-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-08 · 872026-07-07 · 90

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/henrikbengtsson/r.matlab on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.14.0

Imports (5)

methodsutilsR.methodsS3 R.oo R.utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

MatrixSparseM

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

26direct

8indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (2)

Andy Jacobson

Contributor · added in 1.7.0

Jason Riedy

Contributor · added in 1.2.2

Copyright holders (1)

Henrik Bengtsson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2005-02-25
Total releases: 59 / 21 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2.1)
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.0
Download size: 107 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Bengtsson, H., Jacobson, A., & Riedy, J. (2022). R.matlab: Read and Write MAT Files and Call MATLAB from Within R (Version 3.7.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.R.matlab

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for R.matlab version 3.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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