Knowledge space theory by Doignon and Falmagne (1999) <doi:10.1007/978-3-642-58625-5> is a set- and order-theoretical framework which proposes mathematical formalisms to operationalize knowledge structures in a particular domain. The 'kstIO' package provides basic functionalities to read and write KST data from/to files to be used together with the 'kst', 'kstMatrix', 'pks' or 'DAKS' packages.