Well, I don't know how it can be precise and correct when it has dangling antecedents. Gramatically speaking, that's the equivalent of an uninitialized pointer.
However, I agree with you that it probably just needs a minor bit of fiddling to make sure it answers "Instead of what?" and "Earlier than what?" Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Full_Name: Greg Kochanski >> Version: 2.2.0 >> OS: Debian Linux i686 >> Submission from: (NULL) (212.159.16.190) >> >> >> In /usr/share/doc/r-doc-html/manual/R-data.html (at least that's where >> it is on Debian...) the documentation is unclear. Comments below. > > > The documentation is, I believe, correct and precise as it stands. > What it doesn't emphasize and mention is the difference between > "BSD socket" and "socket connection", or an "R connection of the socket > type". And it is recommended that you > use "socket connection" instead of "BSD socket". > > The earlier "BSD socket" is created, read, write with > "make.socket"/"read.socket"/"write socket"/"close socket". > > The newer "socket connection" is created by creating a new connection > object like this: > con <- socketConnection(port = 79, blocking = TRUE) > and invoking the open/write/read method of the "connection" > object. type "?connection" in an R prompt for details. > > "BSD socket" is a unix concept, "socket connection" is an R object. > The paragraph should have put "BSD socket" and "socket connection" > in quote or italics. Make more sense? > > Somebody please fix the paragraph... :-). > >> The paragraph has unclear references, and I have no idea what >> it actually means. >> >> >>>> Base R comes with some facilities to communicate via BSD sockets on >>>> systems >> >> >> that support them (...). One potential problem.... >> >>>> For new projects it is suggested that socket connections are used >>>> instead. >> >> >> >> "Used instead"? Instead of what? >> >> >>>> The earlier low-level interface is given by functions make.socket, >> >> >> read.socket, write.socket and close.socket. >> What does "earlier" mean? Earlier than what? >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
