[R] New package Ryacas

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Just one other comment.  If you want to try running Linux over Windows
you might want to check out how the AndLinux project (google to find)
is progressing.  I had tried it about a year ago and it was much faster
than VMware although at that time it was still a bit immature.

On 10/17/06, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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