[R-SIG-Finance] Introducing TFX: An R Interface to the TrueFX Web API

[G See]

Another possibililty, of course, is that you checked the "Pause
updates" check box at the bottom of the page.  When that is checked,
the quotes don't update.

Garrett

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:12 AM, G See <gsee000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just tried it on Windows and it works for me with the sessionInfo below.
>
> Are you sure you have at least version 1.1.6 of websockets?
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>                       LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] bitops_1.0-5 TFX_0.1.0    shiny_0.2.3
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] caTools_1.13     digest_0.5.2     RJSONIO_1.0-1    tools_2.15.1
>  websockets_1.1.6 XML_3.9-4.1      xtable_1.7-0
>
> Garrett
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Jeff Ryan <jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If the backend is using websockets, that is very new ground in the land of
>> HTML.  M$ prides itself typically on being off by a decade w.r.t. adoption
>> of such 'shiny' things.
>>
>> So... that may indeed be your issue.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Dennis Lee <dennislwm at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> I am running it on Windows, maybe you didn't understand what I said.
>>>
>>> I did get the first quote displayed correctly, so it is not because of the
>>> library.
>>>
>>> My problem is that it doesn't update periodically. I will try to figure it
>>> out
>>> when I have time, just too late now (its past midnight here) to solve this.
>>>
>>> > sessionInfo() R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
>>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>>
>>> It could be because of my R version (maybe not), but then again I have
>>>
>>> installed the CRAN version of shiny (and not the dev version on Github).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>  From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
>>>
>>> Cc: r-sig-finance <r-sig-finance at r-project.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, 4 December 2012 12:56 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Introducing TFX: An R Interface to the TrueFX
>>> Web API
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3 December 2012 at 08:33, Dennis Lee wrote:
>>> | I copied and pasted the code for Shiny app, but it doesn't update the FX
>>> quotes
>>> | every 750 ms. I tried it on Firefox and Chrome.
>>>
>>> "I copied and paste" ? Maybe you did that the wrong way?
>>>
>>> What happens when you install the shiny and TFX packages, and execute
>>>
>>>     library(shiny)
>>>     runGist("4122626")
>>>
>>> which has been very reliable for me on different machine
>>> (home/work/netbook/...) ?
>>>
>>> Dirk
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeffrey Ryan
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