Re: [R] Video demo of using svSocket with data.table

2009-08-21 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Romain Francois wrote: Hi Philippe, When Matthew brought this up the first time on this list, there were several replies to warn about potential problems related to R not being thread safe, and that this might cause trouble. Well, that is true, R is not thread safe. What happens, basically,

Re: [R] Video demo of using svSocket with data.table

2009-08-21 Thread Romain Francois
Hi Philippe, When Matthew brought this up the first time on this list, there were several replies to warn about potential problems related to R not being thread safe, and that this might cause trouble. Since you were on holidays, we did not get your viewpoint. Could you elaborate on how you

Re: [R] Video demo of using svSocket with data.table

2009-08-21 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Hello Matthew and all R-UseRs, You video demo is very nice. This suggests various uses of svSocket that I had not think about! The primary goal was to make it: - flexible (I think it is clear from the demo), - running in the background while not blocking the CLI (Rgui, R.app, or the terminal,