[R] Socket Connection in R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 01/07/2014 13:37, Param Jeet wrote:
> I am trying to create socket connection in R.

That is not a 'socket connection'.  I suggest you use one instead: see 
?socketConnection.

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>      socket <- make.socket("localhost",2099,T,T)
>      msg2<-'function=subscribe|item=MI.EQCON.1|schema=last_price;ask;bid'
>      write.socket(socket,msg2)
>      read.socket(socket,252,FALSE)
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> When I run the read.socket line, I get error:
>
>      Error in read.socket(socket, 252, FALSE) :
>      embedded nul in string:
> 'þþ-\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\001\0\004\0CTCL\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0'
>
> I am Unable to solve this problem. Please advice how to get rid of this
> issue.

The help says

      ‘read.socket’ reads a string from the specified socket,

'Strings' do not have embedded nulls: you need something which can do 
binary reads.  For that you need to use connections.

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