sendSocketClients: Send data to one or more clients through a socket
In adamryczkowski/svSocket: SciViews - Socket Server

Description Usage Arguments Author(s) See Also Examples

The text is send to one or more clients of the R socket server currently connected.

1	sendSocketClients(text, sockets = "all", serverport = 8888)

`text`	the text to send to the client(s).
`sockets`	the Tcl name of the client(s) socket(s) currently connected (sockXXX), or "all" (by default) to send the same text to all connected clients.
`serverport`	the port of the server considered.

Philippe Grosjean (phgrosjean@sciviews.org)

closeSocketClients, processSocket

## Not run: 
## Start an R process (R#1) and make it a server
require(svSocket)
serverport <- 8888  # Port 8888 by default, but you can change it
startSocketServer(port = serverport)


## Start a second R process (R#2) and run this code in it (the R client):
require(svSocket)
## Connect with the R socket server
con <- socketConnection(host = "localhost", port = 8888, blocking = FALSE)


## Now, go back to the server R#1
getSocketClients() # You should have one client registered
## Send something to all clients from R#1
sendSocketClients("Hi there!")


## Switch back to client R#2
## Since the connection is not blocking, you have to read lines actively
readLines(con)
## Note the final empty string indicating there is no more data
close(con) # Once done...


## Switch to the R#1 server and close the server
stopSocketServer(port = serverport)

## End(Not run)