Thanks for your answer, but I wasn't able to find anything that looked like
an example of sockets in either of those packages. I guess I must be even
dumber than I previously thought!

Any help would still be welcome.

On 10/19/06, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Check out these packages:
> - Ryacas (on omegahat) -- sockets between R and yacas
> - mimR (on CRAN) -- sockets between R and mim (Windows only)
>
>
> On 10/19/06, Grateful Frog <gratefulfrog@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello R-helpers!
> >
> > I am new to R, but having a rough time with the socketConnection
> function. I
> > cannot seem to get bi-directional communication to work. I have tried
> loads
> > of possible ways, based on the manual's examples, but the result is
> always
> > one or the other process hanging.
> >
> > Could anyone give me a working example of R code that:
> > - creates a socket,
> > - listens for data ,
> > - reads the data,
> > - writes a reply.
> >
> > Without hanging or causing the sending process to hang.
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate any help.
> >
> > thanks,
> > gf: http://gratefulfrog.net
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