Hi,
I have an application in perl that prints some output to either stderr
or stdout.
Here's an example:
# tmp.pl
print STDERR "starting iterator\n";
for(my $i = 0; $i < 1000000; $i++) {
print $i . "\n";
}
# tmp.R
con <- pipe("perl tmp.pl")
r <- readLines(con, n = -1)
close(con)
However, the second line stalls until the perl for-loop finishes. What I
would like is to process each line as it comes. E.g. something like:
while(TRUE) {
r <- readLines(con, n = 1) # read one line
if(r == "10000") print(r)
if(length(r) == 0) break
}
Of course, this won't work since I'm not calling readLines
appropriately. Answers must work on Windows but may include cygwin
utilities if necessary. Any advice would be appreciated. Version info at
the end if it matters.
Thanks, --sundar
> version
_
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386
os mingw32
system i386, mingw32
status
major 2
minor 8.0
year 2008
month 10
day 20
svn rev 46754
language R
version.string R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
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