On 13 February 2010 at 19:28, Romain Francois wrote: | On 02/13/2010 07:21 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > On 13 February 2010 at 18:08, Romain Francois wrote: | > | Anyone familiar with boost asio here ? | > | http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html | > | > I have not used asio but using more of boost is always a good idea. Would add | > another (weak) build dependency though. | | What do mean by "weak" ?
Oh, sorry: 'headers only, no libs' for most of Boost and the headers are not uncommon. But it will be a hurdle for some people. Worth taking though... | | > | Now that new Rcpp is getting stable, I'd like to use it. One potential | > | use is making some sort of web server with R callbacks, and I was | > | thinking maybe boost asio was the way to go about it. | > | | > | The latest version of R already has a webserver included, which powers | > | the new R help system (see latest R Journal issue), but it is not | > | flexible enough (yet) ... | > | > Let's be patient and resist to urge to add a server in a package :) | > | > Dirk | | But it sounds like fun ... Let's not get tempted :) Dirk -- Registration is open for the 2nd International conference R / Finance 2010 See http://www.RinFinance.com for details, and see you in Chicago in April! _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
