[R] R as a daemon?

[MJ Ray]

kmself at ix.netcom.com writes:

> I have a GNU/Linux / Unix application in which I'd like to have an R
> process running in a persistant state, while receiving instructions (and
> data) from another process, and returning results to this process.
[...]
> Has anyone experimented with this or developed a similar solution?

I intend to work on a similar thing from Perl for release 5 of Rcgi,
but that's a little way off just yet.  (Release 4 should be out this
week.)  The benefits of this are obvious: one of the heaviest bits of
Rcgi is the repeated start-up of R; if maybe not as great as first
thought: after the first start, most of R will be cached in memory if
you have a reasonable amount and there's a performance loss from the
extra housekeeping.

My first thought is to connect it to a local socket via a process
doing access control, some stupidity checking (such as not passing
EOFs on to R) and housekeeping.  Is that sane?
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