[R] R socket communication

[pau carre]

Hello, I tried to code a R socket server but I did not succeed.
The problem is that once the R socket server is created,
I call the readLines function and then R gets blocked.
The client seems to work fine since I tested it with a PERL server.
I tried many combination of params in the socketConnection but
none of them worked.

I have seen some examples where the server sends something to a
client but I need the opposite example.

Thanks,
Pau.

The R server

FSsocket() <- function(){
print("Creating server on localhost")
conn <- socketConnection(server = TRUE, port = 7890, open = "r+")
print("Reading data")
aa <- readLines(conn)
print("end reading lines")
close(conn)
pirnt("Connection closed")
}
Note: I receive a "Creating server on localhost" and a "Reading data"
in the R console, but nothing else.

The PERL client

#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Socket;

# initialize host and port
my $host = shift || 'localhost';
my $port = shift || 7890;

my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');

my $iaddr = inet_aton($host);
my $paddr = sockaddr_in($port, $iaddr);

socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) or die "socket: $!";
connect(SOCKET, $paddr) or die "connect: $!";
print SOCKET "Hello \n";
close SOCKET or die "close: $!";

The PERL server

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Socket;

my $port = shift || 7890;
my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');

socket(SERVER, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) or die "socket: $!";
setsockopt(SERVER, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1) or die "setsock: $!";

my $paddr = sockaddr_in($port, INADDR_ANY);

bind(SERVER, $paddr) or die "bind: $!";
listen(SERVER, SOMAXCONN) or die "listen: $!";
print "SERVER started on port $port ";

my $client_addr;
while ($client_addr = accept(CLIENT, SERVER))
{
my ($client_port, $client_ip) = sockaddr_in($client_addr);
my $client_ipnum = inet_ntoa($client_ip);
my $client_host = gethostbyaddr($client_ip, AF_INET);
print "Connection from: $client_host","[$client_ipnum] ";
while(<CLIENT>){
print "$_";
}
close CLIENT;
}