[R-SIG-Finance] [R-sig-finance] Fwd: Question on multiple sessions...

[Daniel Cegielka]

Jeff Ryan pisze:

> 
> readBin on *nix when non-blocking will return a character(0) (or
> whatever you request) when _nothing_ is available to read.  That is
> testable and logical.  On Windows (this is the point related to
> cross-platform) it returns garbage.  No way to test/etc.  Additionally
> you are limited by nul terminated strings in R's processing.  There
> are workarounds, but they are just that.
> 
> This is all within the context of IBrokers mind you, other connections
> will be different in terms of requirements.  IB uses simple
> nul-terminated character messages.
> 


http://code.google.com/p/ibrokers/source/browse/trunk/R/processMsg.R

So if I understand this code...

daniel