Using svSocket with data.table

Don't be fooled. R does not handle multiple requests in parallel
internally.

Also I suspect that, depending on what you do on the CLI, this will
interact badly with svSocket.

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 find anything that
worked in exactly this way i.e.  i) R to R ii) CLI non-blocking and iii) 
no
need to startup R in a special way

Don't be fooled. R does not handle multiple requests in parallel
internally. Also I suspect that, depending on what you do on the CLI,
this will interact badly with svSocket.

As far as binary transfer of R objects goes, you are probably looking
for serialize() and unserialize(). Not sure if these are guaranteed to
work across differen versions of R and different word sizes. See the
Warnings section in the serialize manual page.

Cheers
Olaf