Dear all,
I am currently working a research project on social media interaction.
As a part of this project, mostly for teaching purposes, I should
develop a R-based approach for real-time visualisation of streamed data
(from Twitter).
My idea is simple (and working :) ): A Python-script stream Twitter for
selected keywords/hashtags/users and redirects the output as JSON in a
text file. My R-script reads the new entries from this text file every
5-10 minutes, process the input and updates network and other graphical
presentations.
Thus far everything is working fine. However, I would like to have the
possibility to work with my data when my script is sleeping. I just
wonder whether a simple 'mcparallel({ Sys.sleep(300); TRUE})' (from
'parallel') would solve my problem? Or is there something I have to take
into account when using 'parallel'?
My R environment runs on Linux, so forking should work...
Best regrads and thanks in advance,
Kimmo
--
Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Dep. for German studies
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