[R] Pipe

[Joe Stuart]

Hi,
I'm trying to use the pipe function to read data from another process
on my server.

Here is the code I have tried.

con <- pipe("/var/matlab/scripts/stream.pl")
while(con_read <- readLines(con)) {
  print(con_read)
}

Problem is that the data from the perl script just keeps appending to
con_read and it never gets to the print function. Which makes sense,
but I would like to be able to perform calculations on con_read, while
the script continues to read from the perl script.


Any help is appreciated.

-Joe