R help - Mar 2012 - socket connection in while(TRUE) loop the best way?

I'm accessing R via a socket connection.  I set up a connection using
socketConnection and then use readLines inside of a while(TRUE) loop to
listen for activity.  Is that the best way of doing this sort of activity?
 It works, that's not the issue, I am just wondering if there's a better
way.

Thanks

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