[Bioc-sig-seq] read sequences from the web

[Seth Falcon]

On 2/5/10 11:00 AM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> The state of the R connection framework is lamentable, but maybe we do not
> need to rely on R for this. There are plenty of other libraries out there
> that provide abstract connections with multiple backends. Some of them are
> pretty heavy, like GIO and Qt, but the UCSC library also has some nice
> routines, especially for access over HTTP. If we ever put together a common
> I/O package, I think it would want to provide abstract connections, somehow.

I agree that there is much left to be desired in R's current connection
framework.  An external I/O package could be one route, although the
additional dependencies and parallel system are not advantages IMO.

> 2010/2/5 Laurent Gautier <lgautier at gmail.com>
>> This is surfacing occasionally on the R-devel mailing-list, with even
>> someone contributing a patch. All seems to have been largely ignored, may be
>> because a critical mass has not been reach (I am still trying to rationalize
>> ;-) ). May be you'll have a strategy to have it pushed through.

This is something that I have some interest in pursuing, but cannot
promise that I will have either sufficient time or support of other R
folks to make it happen.

+ seth