Re: [Rd] Using svSocket with data.table

2009-07-25 Thread Olaf Mersmann
Hi Matthew, Excerpts from Matthew Dowle's message of Sat Jul 25 09:07:44 +0200 2009: > So I'm looking to do the same as the demo, but with a binary socket. Does > anyone have any ideas? I've looked a bit at Rserve, bigmemory, biocep, nws > but although all those packages are great, I didn't

Re: [Rd] Using svSocket with data.table

2009-07-25 Thread Romain Francois
Hi, Just look at the way Rserve wraps data and the way the Rserve client unwraps it, and pipe the data through the svSocket instead of Rserve communication protocols. The command line is not blocked because svSocket uses tcl/tk event loop for the communication. So there are these questions

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: install.packages to look for the newest version (PR#13852)

2009-07-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
Thomas Lumley wrote: Uwe, I think Ulrike is making a different suggestion, that install.packages() should fetch the binary that has been built for the current version of R. This would be a bad idea for a different reason -- in general it is not possible to be sure that the package works w

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: install.packages to look for the newest version of a package (PR#13851)

2009-07-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
Ulrike Grömping wrote: Uwe, I am talking binaries and Windows. I was not thinking of building binaries for old versions, but of looking in the new version repositories first, whether there is a binary that is said to be valid for the older version. Wouldn't it be possible to have the proces

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: install.packages to look for the newest version (PR#13853)

2009-07-25 Thread groemping
Uwe, I am talking binaries and Windows. I was not thinking of building binaries for old versions, but of looking in the new version repositories first, whether there is a binary that is said to be valid for the older version. Wouldn't it be possible to have the process look up a table of a new

Re: [Rd] How to create a permanent dataset in R.

2009-07-25 Thread Alex D'Amour
Say your dataset is stored in variable "dat". Type: > save(dat, file="mydatfile.RData") Next time you start the session, call: load("mydatfile.RData") And you can reload your dataset. Is this what you meant? HTH, Alex On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Albert EINstEIN wrote: > > > Hi everybod

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: install.packages to look for the newest version (PR#13852)

2009-07-25 Thread Ulrike Grömping
Thomas, yes, I think, if installation of the new version is not safe, a warning would be a very good idea, perhaps also with a hint on how to manually install from the repository for the new version of R ? Regards, Ulrike Thomas Lumley wrote: > > > Uwe, > > I think Ulrike is making a diffe

[Rd] Using svSocket with data.table

2009-07-25 Thread Matthew Dowle
Hi r-devel, svSocket is working well. Short demo here of using it with data.table : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvT8XThGA8o If you maximise and press the HD button it should be readable. There isn't any audio. However, svSocket is currently text based IPC using dump. Is there a solution