[R] Connect to Visual? and Bench Mark

[Yoon, Hoon (CICG - NY Program Trading)]

Hi,

  I am trying to find those packages mentioned by the two Professors below.
I have looked through the FAQ, CRAN, Hotbot Mail archives, etc..., but
cannot find where those things are (I may be going blind). Can anyone pls
direct me to the secret R hidding place?
  Thanks much,

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> Recently Thomas Lumley announced a sockets library for R.  I'm not
> sure if that allows R to act as a server.  Perhaps Thomas can comment.

> Yes, you could use it that way. You can set up either server or client
> sockets. It currently only passes strings over the connections, but you
> can always use parse() then eval() to evaluate them. 
> 
> 
> You might also be able to replace the input and output code in
> src/unix/system.c or the event loop in src/windows/wincons.c
> 
> 	-thomas
> 
> 
> Thomas Lumley
> Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
> University of Washington, Seattle
> 
	[Yoon, Hoon (CICG - NY Program Trading)]
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If you want to do this on Windows, the latest version of Guido Masarotto's
R port has the R engine as a DLL and two specimen (but very useful) front
ends.  It looks very easy to mimic these to call into that DLL from any of
the Windows systems (VB, VC++, Delphi) you mention, although as this
development is so new, I doubt if anyone has tried it yet. You can of
course build a special-purpose version of that DLL with additional hooks if
you need it. (This is essentially a pre-packed version of Thomas'
suggestion.)


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