[R] connecting to running process possible?

Mike Lawrence Mike.Lawrence at DAL.CA
Tue Jun 26 13:21:10 CEST 2007


If you get the running process to write its results to file, then you  
could run a loop in R asking it to repeatedly read the file and plot  
the contents. It may work best if you plot to a file like a pdf.

On 22-Jun-07, at 1:06 PM, Charles Cosse wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i'm trying to find a more modern system to reproduce the  
> functionality that
> was available through the Histoscope program (from Fermilab).   
> Namely, the
> capability of connecting to a running process and having plots  
> update in
> realtime in response to new data.  Is this possible with R?  Thank  
> you,
>
> Charles Cosse
>
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