diff --git a/nalgebra-sparse/Cargo.toml b/nalgebra-sparse/Cargo.toml
index 0dfe743f..4e414322 100644
--- a/nalgebra-sparse/Cargo.toml
+++ b/nalgebra-sparse/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ pest_derive    = { version = "2", optional = true }
 itertools = "0.10"
 matrixcompare = { version = "0.3.0", features = [ "proptest-support" ] }
 nalgebra = { version="0.30", path = "../", features = ["compare"] }
+tempfile = "3"
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 # Enable certain features when building docs for docs.rs
diff --git a/nalgebra-sparse/src/io/matrix_market.rs b/nalgebra-sparse/src/io/matrix_market.rs
index 5143447c..200aeff2 100644
--- a/nalgebra-sparse/src/io/matrix_market.rs
+++ b/nalgebra-sparse/src/io/matrix_market.rs
@@ -1487,10 +1487,7 @@ pub fn write_to_matrix_market_str<T: MatrixMarketScalar, S: MatrixMarketExport<T
 /// 2 3 5
 /// "#;
 /// let matrix = load_coo_from_matrix_market_str::<i32>(&str).unwrap();
-/// // create a temporary file 'temp.mtx'
-/// let mut tempdir = std::env::temp_dir();
-/// tempdir.push("temp.mtx");
-/// write_to_matrix_market_file(&matrix,tempdir).unwrap();
+/// write_to_matrix_market_file(&matrix,"path/to/matrix.mtx").unwrap();
 /// ```
 pub fn write_to_matrix_market_file<
     T: MatrixMarketScalar,
diff --git a/nalgebra-sparse/tests/unit_tests/matrix_market.rs b/nalgebra-sparse/tests/unit_tests/matrix_market.rs
index 7bf6891c..245fa3f5 100644
--- a/nalgebra-sparse/tests/unit_tests/matrix_market.rs
+++ b/nalgebra-sparse/tests/unit_tests/matrix_market.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use nalgebra_sparse::io::{
 use nalgebra_sparse::proptest::coo_no_duplicates;
 use nalgebra_sparse::CooMatrix;
 use proptest::prelude::*;
+use tempfile::tempdir;
 
 type C64 = Complex<f64>;
 type C32 = Complex<f32>;
@@ -457,10 +458,11 @@ proptest! {
 proptest! {
     #[test]
     fn coo_matrix_market_roundtrip_file(coo in coo_no_duplicates(-10 ..= 10, 0 ..= 10, 0..= 10, 100)) {
-        let mut tempdir = std::env::temp_dir();
-        tempdir.push("temp.mtx");
-        write_to_matrix_market_file(&coo,&tempdir).unwrap();
-        let generated_matrix = load_coo_from_matrix_market_file(tempdir).unwrap();
+        let temp_dir = tempdir().expect("Unable to create temporary directory");
+        let file_path = temp_dir.path().join("temp.mtx");
+        write_to_matrix_market_file(&coo,&file_path).unwrap();
+        let generated_matrix = load_coo_from_matrix_market_file(file_path).unwrap();
         assert_matrix_eq!(generated_matrix, coo);
+        temp_dir.close().expect("Unable to delete temporary directory");
     }
 }