svSocket
A socket server that allows for another process to connect to R and to interact with it as if it was at the command line directly.
Installation
The latest stable version of svSocket can simply be installed from CRAN:
install.packages("svSocket")
You can also install the latest developement version. Make sure you have the devtools R package installed:
install.packages("devtools")
Use install_github()
to install the svSocket package from Github (source from master branch will be recompiled on your machine):
devtools::install_github("SciViews/svSocket")
R should install all required dependencies automatically, and then it should compile and install svSocket.
Latest devel version of svSocket (source + Windows binaires for the latest stable version of R at the time of compilation) is also available from appveyor.
Further explore svSocket
You can get further help about this package this way: Make the svSocket package available in your R session:
library("svSocket")
Get help about this package:
library(help = "svSocket")
help("svSocket-package")
vignette("svSocket") # None is installed with install_github()
For further instructions, please, refer to these help pages at https://www.sciviews.org/svSocket/.
Code of Conduct
Please note that the svSocket project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
Note to developers
This package used to be developed on R-Forge in the past. However, the latest R-Forge version was moved to this Github repository on 2016-03-18 (SVN version 569). Please, do not use R-Forge anymore for SciViews development, use this Github repository instead.