Transfer files through Rserve

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This post is motivated by this question on R-help. This is a simple java class that sends files through Rserve using the classes RFileInputStream and RFileOutputStream

Then we create a simple file on the client machine:

$ cat > testfile.txt
bla bla
^C

And we are good to go:

$ javac -cp .:REngine.jar:Rserve.jar RserveWire.java
$ java -cp .:REngine.jar:Rserve.jar RserveWire testfile.txt serverfile.txt
/tmp/Rserv/conn6
writing the client file 'testfile.txt' to the server as 'serverfile.txt'
writing the server file 'file.txt' to the client as 'file.txt' 

Now in the directory /tmp/Rserv/conn6 of the server, there are the files “serverfile.txt” and “file.txt”

$ cat serverfile.txt 
bla bla
$ cat file.txt
 [1] -1.16541741 -0.55857285  2.19752036 -0.78432188  1.40739981 -0.87252966
 [7] -0.11545651 -0.36735874 -2.75736666  0.29798096 -0.86836355 -0.03416198
[13] -0.44344089  0.88976360  0.58821334 -0.10354205 -0.88760475 -0.64608338
[19]  0.96552319 -1.57166441 -0.19010633 -1.42239696  0.49363257  0.06167547
[25]  0.34801546 -0.41211734 -0.20320050 -1.45370497  1.34383425 -0.89461504

and on the client there is also the “file.txt”

$ cat file.txt
 [1] -1.16541741 -0.55857285  2.19752036 -0.78432188  1.40739981 -0.87252966
 [7] -0.11545651 -0.36735874 -2.75736666  0.29798096 -0.86836355 -0.03416198
[13] -0.44344089  0.88976360  0.58821334 -0.10354205 -0.88760475 -0.64608338
[19]  0.96552319 -1.57166441 -0.19010633 -1.42239696  0.49363257  0.06167547
[25]  0.34801546 -0.41211734 -0.20320050 -1.45370497  1.34383425 -0.89461504

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