[R] R socket communication

[pau carre]

Hello, thank you for your help but I need to use the standard R
packages as I am developing an academic project and I the use of
external R packages is not allowed.
Pau.

2006/2/5, Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org>:
> See package svSocket in the SciViews bundle. It uses a socket server
> written in tcltk and it is not blocking the command line.
>
> Philippe Grosjean
>
> pau carre wrote:
> > Hello, I tried to code a R socket server but I did not succeed.
> > The problem is that once the R socket server is created,
> > I call the readLines function and then R gets blocked.
> > The client seems to work fine since I tested it with a PERL server.
> > I tried many combination of params in the socketConnection but
> > none of them worked.
> >
> > I have seen some examples where the server sends something to a
> > client but I need the opposite example.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pau.
> >
> > The R server
> >
> > FSsocket() <- function(){
> > print("Creating server on localhost")
> > conn <- socketConnection(server = TRUE, port = 7890, open = "r+")
> > print("Reading data")
> > aa <- readLines(conn)
> > print("end reading lines")
> > close(conn)
> > pirnt("Connection closed")
> > }
> > Note: I receive a "Creating server on localhost" and a "Reading data"
> > in the R console, but nothing else.
> >
> > The PERL client
> >
> > #! /usr/bin/perl
> > use strict;
> > use Socket;
> >
> > # initialize host and port
> > my $host = shift || 'localhost';
> > my $port = shift || 7890;
> >
> > my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
> >
> > my $iaddr = inet_aton($host);
> > my $paddr = sockaddr_in($port, $iaddr);
> >
> > socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) or die "socket: $!";
> > connect(SOCKET, $paddr) or die "connect: $!";
> > print SOCKET "Hello \n";
> > close SOCKET or die "close: $!";
> >
> > The PERL server
> >
> > #! /usr/bin/perl -w
> >
> > use strict;
> > use Socket;
> >
> > my $port = shift || 7890;
> > my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
> >
> > socket(SERVER, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) or die "socket: $!";
> > setsockopt(SERVER, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1) or die "setsock: $!";
> >
> > my $paddr = sockaddr_in($port, INADDR_ANY);
> >
> > bind(SERVER, $paddr) or die "bind: $!";
> > listen(SERVER, SOMAXCONN) or die "listen: $!";
> > print "SERVER started on port $port ";
> >
> > my $client_addr;
> > while ($client_addr = accept(CLIENT, SERVER))
> > {
> > my ($client_port, $client_ip) = sockaddr_in($client_addr);
> > my $client_ipnum = inet_ntoa($client_ip);
> > my $client_host = gethostbyaddr($client_ip, AF_INET);
> > print "Connection from: $client_host","[$client_ipnum] ";
> > while(<CLIENT>){
> > print "$_";
> > }
> > close CLIENT;
> > }
> >
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