Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph], Andy Jacobson [ctb] (Internal MAT v4 reader), Jason Riedy [ctb] (Support for reading compressed files (via 'Rcompression'), sparse matrices and UTF-encoded strings.)

Read and Write MAT Files and Call MATLAB from Within R
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.

c(
person("Henrik", "Bengtsson", role=c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
email="henrikb@braju.com"),
person("Andy", "Jacobson", role="ctb", comment="Internal MAT v4 reader"),
person("Jason", "Riedy", role="ctb", email="ejr@cs.berkeley.edu",
comment="Support for reading compressed files, sparse matrices and UTF-encoded strings."))
Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph], Andy Jacobson [ctb] (Internal MAT v4 reader), Jason Riedy [ctb] (Support for reading compressed files, sparse matrices and UTF-encoded strings.)

Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph],
Andy Jacobson [ctb] (Internal MAT v4 reader),
Jason Riedy [ctb] (Support for reading compressed files, sparse
matrices and UTF-encoded strings.)

Utility function for defining S3 methods
Methods that simplify the setup of S3 generic functions and S3 methods.  Major effort has been made in making definition of methods as simple as possible with a minimum of maintainance for package developers.  For example, generic functions are created automatically, if missing, and name conflict are automatically solved, if possible.  The method setMethodS3() is a good start for those who in the future want to migrate to S4.  This is a cross-platform package implemented in pure R and is generating standard S3 methods.

Methods that simplify the setup of S3 generic functions
and S3 methods.  Major effort has been made in making
definition of methods as simple as possible with a minimum of
maintenance for package developers.  For example, generic
functions are created automatically, if missing, and naming
conflict are automatically solved, if possible.  The method
setMethodS3() is a good start for those who in the future want
to migrate to S4.  This is a cross-platform package implemented
in pure R and generates standard S3 methods.