[R] Video demo of using svSocket with data.table

[Romain Francois]

Hi Philippe,

When Matthew brought this up the first time on this list, there were 
several replies to warn about potential problems related to R not being 
thread safe, and that this might cause trouble.

Since you were on holidays, we did not get your viewpoint. Could you 
elaborate on how you deal with this.

"browser" works off the REPL, so this is unlikely that svSocket can take 
advantage of it, since the socket runs on a different loop. or maybe you 
can add something that feeds the R main loop, but I'm not sure this is 
possible unless you embed R ...

Romain

On 08/21/2009 11:04 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
>
> Hello Matthew and all R-UseRs,
>
> You video demo is very nice. This suggests various uses of svSocket that
> I had not think about! The primary goal was to make it:
> - flexible (I think it is clear from the demo),
> - running in the background while not blocking the CLI (Rgui, R.app, or
> the terminal, very clear from your demo too),
> - stateful (yes, this is not in your demo, but a client can disconnect
> and reconnect and got the same server state it had just before
> disconnection, including possibly, partial command send to R server),
>
> Not implemented yet, but planned for the future:
> - binary transfer of R objects,
> - connection to distant secured server using TSL (of course, distant
> connection requires a lot of extra precautions because R is NOT an
> Internet-secure language and environment, but that applies to all
> client/server R solutions like Rserve or Rpad),
> - mirroring of the commands, results and history on the different
> clients to make a simple collaborative R session.
>
> The primary use in SciViews is the communication engine between the
> client (a code editor, or IDE program like Komodo Edit) and server (R).
> Your demo gives an idea on the flexibility one got with it, including
> the possibility to inspect and/or change objects while R is running a
> long process. Your example of changing the plot in real-time without
> interrupting the main server's process is very illustrative. So now,
> imagine the debugging flexibility for long running tasks, and/or
> combination of svSocket with browser()... But that's another story,
> because svSocket does not work nicely with browser() for the moment.
>
> All the best,
>
> Philippe
>
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> Matthew Dowle wrote:
>> Dear r-help,
>> If you haven't already seen this then :
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvT8XThGA8o
>> The video consists of typing at the console and graphics, there is no
>> audio
>> or slides. Please press the HD button and maximise. Its about 8 mins.
>> Regards, Matthew

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