newbie: closing unused connection + readline

...I tried something line this also:

mydataframe <- read.table (socket, sep=",");

but does not work says no input lines.

this also.

mydataframe <- read.table (readLine(socket), sep=",");

Sorry, I didn't see this before my last email.  This seems to be the
real problem....

I don't understand why read.table would have a problem reading
directly from a socket instead of a textConnection.  Is this a bug?
Some subtlety in the semantics of socketConnection as opposed to
textConnection?  Incorrect parameters when opening the
socketConnection?

            -s