Re: [R] Maybe OT: Forking in R scripts?

2016-10-13 Thread Greg Snow
I don't know if the parallel approach would work or not, but a possibly simpler approach would be to use the tclTaskSchedule function from the tcltk package. You could use this to schedule your update code to run on a regular basis, then you have access to the command line between times that it ru

[R] Maybe OT: Forking in R scripts?

2016-10-12 Thread K. Elo
Dear all, I am currently working a research project on social media interaction. As a part of this project, mostly for teaching purposes, I should develop a R-based approach for real-time visualisation of streamed data (from Twitter). My idea is simple (and working :) ): A Python-script stre