On 2/5/10 11:00 AM, Michael Lawrence wrote: > The state of the R connection framework is lamentable, but maybe we do not > need to rely on R for this. There are plenty of other libraries out there > that provide abstract connections with multiple backends. Some of them are > pretty heavy, like GIO and Qt, but the UCSC library also has some nice > routines, especially for access over HTTP. If we ever put together a common > I/O package, I think it would want to provide abstract connections, somehow.
I agree that there is much left to be desired in R's current connection framework. An external I/O package could be one route, although the additional dependencies and parallel system are not advantages IMO. > 2010/2/5 Laurent Gautier <[email protected]> >> This is surfacing occasionally on the R-devel mailing-list, with even >> someone contributing a patch. All seems to have been largely ignored, may be >> because a critical mass has not been reach (I am still trying to rationalize >> ;-) ). May be you'll have a strategy to have it pushed through. This is something that I have some interest in pursuing, but cannot promise that I will have either sufficient time or support of other R folks to make it happen. + seth _______________________________________________ Bioc-sig-sequencing mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-sig-sequencing
