Context Functions

Context functions

zmq.ctx.new()

zmq.ctx.destroy(ctx)

Arguments

ctx

a ZMQ context

Value

zmq.ctx.new() returns an R external pointer (ctx) generated by ZMQ C API pointing to a context if successful, otherwise returns an R NULL.

zmq.ctx.destroy() returns 0 if successful, otherwise returns -1 and sets errno to either EFAULT or EINTR.

Details

zmq.ctx.new() initializes a ZMQ context for starting communication.

zmq.ctx.destroy() terminates the context for stopping communication.

References

ZeroMQ/4.1.0 API Reference: https://libzmq.readthedocs.io/en/zeromq4-1/

Programming with Big Data in R Website: https://pbdr.org/

See also

zmq.socket(), zmq.close(), zmq.bind(), zmq.connect().

Author

Wei-Chen Chen wccsnow@gmail.com.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
library(pbdZMQ, quietly = TRUE)

context <- zmq.ctx.new()
zmq.ctx.destroy(context)
} # }