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...like to do is to be able to read from the underlying data object directly (in other programming languages this would be achieved by passing a pointer to the object instead), without making a copy. Given the rules of variable name scoping in R, I could avoid making a copy with the following call: extract2 = function(object.name, index) { eval(parse(text = "temp = ", object.name, "[index, , drop=FALSE]", sep="")) # do some further manipulations here .... return(temp) } But this seems very messy. Is there a better way? Thanks for your help David Khabie-Ze...

Hi Charles, Thanks for your response. No, I only put 192.168.1.64 as an extra option as I want to allow Slave access from another computer. Otherwise, access will normally only be from localhost. There is only one network interface on this machine. I will try it out with "LISTEN 0.0.0.0 3493" and see what happens. I must confess I usually run without a firewall as I'm only running a