In an R session I have > c <-socketConnection("localhost", port=6011, blocking=F, server=T, open="w+")
After I connect to the server from, say, telnet % telnet localhost 6011 the socketConnection returns and gives a valid c. My problem is as follows : I would expect something like > readLines(con=c, n=1) to return immediately when reading from c non-blocking c, whether there are any contents to be read or not. However, readLines only returns when there is some input to be consumed, ie if in the telnet session I type foo followed by newline. In short, readLines seems to be blocking even though the connection is presumably non-blocking. FYI, A "file" connection does behave as expected, but I do need the socketConnection here. I am Running R 2.2.0-2.fc4, on Linux 2.6.11-1.1369. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel