[Rd] Request to open up getConnection to embedded interface

[Jeffrey Horner]

Duncan Temple Lang wrote:
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> Hi Jeff
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>   Robert Gentleman and I were just conversing about the need to
> make connections part of the general API in some way, be it
> as they are now or slightly changed.  It is not just for
> the embedded case, but for packages also that we need to be
> able to access them from C code and even extend them.
> For me, the RCurl and Rcompression packages on omegahat.org
> are two clear cases of unnecessarily constrained and complex code.
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> We need to make much of core R system extensible
> at the package level rather than only allowing it to be done
> at the R-level.
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>  So this is on the list of things to do.

Excellent! The sooner the better. My interests are in the connections, 
serialization and compression stuff. I'd like to help in any way from 
documentation to debugging to coding, whatever...

Jeff
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