Re: [R] problem reading from serial connection since 2.10.0

2009-12-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
RTFM time: what do you think the description of 'file' in ?scan says about devices (I can see nothing that says they are supported). It does however say that As from R 2.10.0 this can be a compressed file (see ‘file’). which is a clear indication of what changed in R 2.10.0. Did yo

[R] problem reading from serial connection since 2.10.0

2009-12-29 Thread Tom Gottfried
Dear list, I have a balance connected to the serial port of a windows machine ("COM1") and I read the text output of the balance with scan("COM1", what="character", sep="\n", n=1) after calling the previous line I press the print key on the balance which triggers sending one line of text to th