sciviews / svsocket

SciViews R socket server

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 development version. Make sure you have the {remotes} R package installed:

install.packages("remotes")

Use install_github() to install the {svSocket} package from Github (source from master branch will be recompiled on your machine):

remotes::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 binaries 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.