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: ... [Read more...]

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 ... [Read more...]

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 ... [Read more...]

In an earlier post, I discussed how to use Subversion to download, edit, and generate a patch against R‘s source code. Since most of us can’t commit our code changes back to R‘s repository, we can consider alternatives to store and maintain our patch, until it is ... [Read more...]

The development version of R is stored in a Subversion repository at the URL http://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/. In fact, you can browse the source code by clicking the link. Subversion Hierarchy Subversion is software for source code revision control. That means it keeps track of changes, who ... [Read more...]

I completed (some time ago) an initial version of a patch for R, version 2.11.1, that adds a POSIX tty connection. The patch is confirmed to compile and works on Mac OS X (thanks to Ashwin Bhat of Georgia Tech) and Debian GNU Linux. However, it should be portable to other ... [Read more...]

The R function iconv converts between character string encodings, for example, from the locale dependent encoding to UTF-8: __ iconv("foo", to="UTF-8") [1] "foo" However, R has long-running trouble with embedded null characters ('') in strings. Hence, if we try to convert to an encoding that permits embedded null characters, iconv ... [Read more...]

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 of ... [Read more...]

***UPDATED: June 3, 2010 – revert name from “tty” to “serial“, R version (2.11.1)*** I’m working on a patch for R (currently 2.11.1) that adds a serial connection feature for POSIX systems (i.e. Linux, Mac OS X, …). The serial connection works like the other connections. For example, the following code opens, writes a ... [Read more...]