[R] Problems with source() function

[Al]

I'm trying to feed data generated on-the-fly by a PHP script using R
function source(), passing the arguments in the URL, using GET method
("http://someserver.com/script.php?a=343&b=873"). If not on-the-fly, the
user has to wait more and get the data in more than one step.

I'm trying a one-step simple method but for some reason the source()
function truncates silently the data. I will try your suggestion of a
binary file if I can generate the gzip stream on-the-fly...

Thank you!

.....................
Alberto de Luis
Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Lab
Cancer Research Center
Salamanca (Spain)
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On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 06:57 -0700, Seth Falcon wrote:
> On 28 Oct 2005, aldeluis at usal.es wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for your answer :)
> >
> > I've tested your suggestion but without success. The remote load
> > process is truncated silently using
> >
> > 	source(textConnection(readLines(url(http://...)))
> >
> > when look at the contents there's not a fixed point of break, is
> > different each time I execute the command. Therefore the dropped
> > lines are different every time. It seems the only constant is the
> > time of the interruption (1 min 55 secs in my system).
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to accomplish, but I wonder
> if either of the following two ideas would help you:
> 
> 1. Instead of source(), consider loading the R code on the server side
>    and then using save(..., compres=TRUE) to create a binary image.
>    You can then feed that to the clients and have them use load().  
> 
> 2. What happens if you gzip the code before sending and gunzip on the
>    client side.  It may be less convenient, although supposedly there
>    is a way to do the equivalent of gzfile(url(...)).
> 
> HTH,
> 
> + seth
> 
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