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I’m putting together my presentation for useR! 2011 titled “Experimenting with a tty connection for R“. Hence, I’ve updated the tty connection patch to work with R versions 2.13.0 and 2.13.1. And, instead of re-listing the patch files and re-writing instructions on their application, I’ve devoted a small portion of my Code page for this purpose.
My plan is to present some of the less interesting uses for a tty connection (e.g. password entry without echo), and then move on to some hardware applications (e.g. reading GPS and temperature data from a serial port). I might even bring my home-made ECG (and cross my fingers that airport security won’t mind a bunch of raw electronics and wires ).
Experimenting with a tty Connection for R I presented twice at this years useR!. The first was a regular talk on the tty connection patch for R. The talk went smoothly, despite a live demonstration using the DLP-232PC data acquisition module (datasheet). The slides for this presentation are here: shotwell-tty-useR-2011.pdf…
I reverted the name of the tty connection that I described previously, to “serial” connection and updated the patch to R 2.11.1. This name is more appropriate to its function and also makes way for another patch I am working on which implements the full POSIX terminal interface (essentially all…
Below are some links to a patch against the R-2.12.2 source code that implements a tty connection for R. Since the release of R-2.13.0 is coming soon, I’ll have a patch for it soon also. What’s a tty connection? The tty connection is an R interface to computer terminals, as…
March 17, 2011
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