[R] New package Ryacas

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Maybe there are timing problems using that setup with sockets?  I once tried
VMware (not with Ryacas but just to try it out) and found it slow as can
be expected with an emulated environment. Since you have Windows XP just
use the Windows version of Ryacas directly.

On 10/17/06, Simon Blomberg <blomsp at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Gabor,
>
> I'm running Quantian (Debian) inside a VMware virtual machine, on a
> Windows XP host.
>
> I installed the latest version of yacas from the source tarball. I
> remembered to ./configure --enable-server to allow server connections.
> make and make install worked ok, after some fiddling. I checked that the
> yacas server option worked, by doing yacas --server 3333, and then
> telnet'ing to 127.0.0.1 3333 to check. It worked fine. I installed
> Ryacas. I then tried it out and got the following error:
>
>  > library(Ryacas)
> Loading required package: XML
>  > yacas('Integrate(x)x;')
> [1] "Starting Yacas!"
> Error in socketConnection(host = "127.0.0.1", port = 9734, server =
> FALSE,  :
>       unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> 127.0.0.1:9734 cannot be opened
>  > Accepting requests from port 9734
>
> I tried again (stubborn, I guess):
>
>  > yacas('Integrate(x)x;')
>  [1] "Starting Yacas!"
>  Accepting requests from port 9734
>  YacasServer Could not bind to the socket
>  : Address already in use
>  /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Ryacas/yacdir/R.ys(1) : File not found
>  CommandLine(1) : Expecting ) closing bracket for sub-expression, but
> got x instead
>
> Any ideas where I may be going wrong? I don't know anything about
> sockets. I've cross-posted to r-sig-debian. They may be interested.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
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