If you're going to get into reading databases let me know. I've
already
done a fair amount of work on this and have a working interface to
Fame
time series databases (and any other database which can be made to support a generic protocol I've been working on).
I probably won't have any time for this is the near future, but perhaps
someone else will fill in ... Anyway, if there is more info about the `generic protocol' you
mentioned
that you can easily make available, the please do so.
Kurt There is a fair amount of information and example code available at http://www.bank-banque-canada.ca/pgilbert Follow the link to TSPADI. There is a working server front end for the Fame time series database software as well as a very simplistic file based "database" we made for test purposes. There is also a client side interface for Splus and for a "generic client" which is intended as an example and also for test purposes. The version of the code on the web page needs a few minor changes for R. I have done that and will soon make it available. Please note that this is not a database protocol like SQL which allows queries. The client must provide an identifier for an object and the server simply returns the object. The protocol uses RPC and has only been tested on TCP/IP networks, although I've been told RPC is available with some other networks. It does work across the Internet. (It can also be run locally without a network using loopback.) An interesting project would be to write a wrapper (eg. in Perl) for some of the data being provided as text formatted pages. Then a server could be setup to provide the data with the PADI protocol so that it could be used directly by application programs like R. If anyone has some bright student looking for something to do I can provide more details. Paul Gilbert =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-