r/Rlanguage • u/WannaBeStatDev • Jul 28 '26

Any good Socket interfaces in R?

R have a very barebones socket implementation. And right now I am getting in trouble because looks like it doesn't even support IPV6 (may be user error)

Any one has a good material about R support for IPV6 sockets? or R socket programming in general. It seem very lackluster with missing SHUTDOWN an other features.

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u/Viriaro Jul 28 '26

Have you checked nanonext ?

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u/WannaBeStatDev Jul 29 '26

So, nanonext is actually very cool.

But our system is already built on top of Unix sockets from scratch, and I need to fix only the R side. Since it calls the libnng, they didn't even need to implement the socket details on R, if I understood correctly.

If we were building from scratch, it would be a solid option actually. But in this case it seems its own "library" built on top of everything else.

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u/WannaBeStatDev Jul 29 '26

It seems to have some of it. But it looks more oriented to some specific tasks instead of generic.

Worth a try though. Thanks

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u/kennedymwavu Jul 28 '26

don't know much about socket programming but you can checkout the nanonext r pkg and see if it helps.

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u/WannaBeStatDev Jul 29 '26

Just checked it, it would fix if I were designing from scratch. And it is very cool.

But now it would mean a refactoring, and the fix is only required on R. (and not even sure I could request the libnng for cpp).

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u/WannaBeStatDev Jul 29 '26

There is no "socket" package AFAIK. I saw some svSocket but also not generic.

I might actually go the Rcpp route actually, it will just be more laborious.