Hello to everybody, I'm repeating my post as the previous one was posted in HTML - sorry guys!
I seem to be in struggle with the websockets in R. I wanted to download the streaming data from the BitCoin exchange MtGox directly to R, but R cannot establish the connection. The websocket specs are defined as: Host: websocket.mtgox.com or socketio.mtgox.com Port: 80 or 443 ( ssl ) Namespace: /mtgox (Including beginning slash) url for more details: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MtGox/API/Streaming and my code is: > require(websockets) > con = websocket("https://socketio.mtgox.com/mtgox",port=443) and I always end up with an error: > con = websocket("https://socketio.mtgox.com/mtgox",port=443) > Error in websocket("https://socketio.mtgox.com/mtgox";, port = 443) : > Connection error Does anyone have an idea what is wrong? I was informed that MtGox does not use the proper websocket protocol but something called Socket-io. Is it the reason why it doesn't work? If so, is there any other way to handle socket-io in R? I searched all websockets packages but did not find any. Many thanks for help. Stepan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
