[Rprotobuf-yada] lots of updates

[Romain Francois]

On 11/04/2009 08:41 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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> On 4 November 2009 at 19:17, Romain Francois wrote:
> |>  And you even went to one namespace only :)
> |
> | I sort of intercepted your commit. I hope I did not do damage otherwise,
> | please let me know if you commited something else that disappeared
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> Well for as long as svn cleanly applies it changes we're fine.
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> |>  Could you possibly set up a little demo() file that just 'does stuff' ?
> |>  Otherwise I get lost between the different man pages.
> |
> | Sure. The page for the protobufMessage class is the one that contains
> | most of the stuff.
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> Cool, thanks. I see that we have one now. Haven't tried it yet...
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> |>  | meaning we need to create istream and ostream based on R connections.
> |>
> |>  Never tried that.  We could start pedestrian and parse from text connections
> |>  (files) first and later bring things down to C++ in a more general way.
> |
> | Files are easy, but kind of boring. One potential way I'd like to use
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> Yes, but a good test case. If those work, extending to other connections
> should be fine.
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> | this is to communicate with some other process, so typically send the
> | message through a binary socket, and it would be a pity to have to go
> | through files for this
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> Absolutely.
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> | We can take R connections completely out of the loop and sort of
> | recreate them, but that's a shame I think.
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> Oh, maybe I misunderstood. So connections but not R connections?

My aim os to go through R connections. But if it is not possible, then 
I'll move on.

> |>  By the way, if there are Rcpp you need or could think of let me know!
> |
> | If we can manage to disguise r connections as c++ streams, I think this
> | fits nicer in Rcpp than in RProtoBuf.
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> Ack. Something to think about.
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> Dirk
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