Stateful Goroutines in R Programming Language

In this example, we'll demonstrate how to manage state using R's environment and function closure capabilities. This approach aligns with R's functional programming paradigm and provides a way to encapsulate state within a function.

```r
library(parallel)

# Define structures for read and write operations
readOp <- function(key, value = NULL) {
  list(key = key, value = value)
}

writeOp <- function(key, value) {
  list(key = key, value = value)
}

# Create a stateful function that manages a private environment
create_stateful_manager <- function() {
  state <- new.env(hash = TRUE)
  
  function(op) {
    if (is.null(op$value)) {
      # Read operation
      return(state[[as.character(op$key)]])
    } else {
      # Write operation
      state[[as.character(op$key)]] <- op$value
      return(TRUE)
    }
  }
}

# Create channels for read and write operations
reads <- parallel::makeCluster(1)
writes <- parallel::makeCluster(1)

# Initialize the state manager
state_manager <- create_stateful_manager()

# Function to perform read operations
perform_reads <- function(n) {
  for (i in 1:n) {
    key <- sample(1:5, 1)
    result <- state_manager(readOp(key))
    Sys.sleep(0.001)  # Sleep for 1 millisecond
  }
}

# Function to perform write operations
perform_writes <- function(n) {
  for (i in 1:n) {
    key <- sample(1:5, 1)
    value <- sample(1:100, 1)
    result <- state_manager(writeOp(key, value))
    Sys.sleep(0.001)  # Sleep for 1 millisecond
  }
}

# Start read operations
parallel::clusterApply(reads, list(7000), perform_reads)

# Start write operations
parallel::clusterApply(writes, list(700), perform_writes)

# Wait for operations to complete (1 second)
Sys.sleep(1)

# Stop the clusters
parallel::stopCluster(reads)
parallel::stopCluster(writes)

# Print the final state
print(state_manager(readOp(1)))
print(state_manager(readOp(2)))
print(state_manager(readOp(3)))
print(state_manager(readOp(4)))
print(state_manager(readOp(5)))

In this R implementation:

We define readOp and writeOp functions to create operation structures.
The create_stateful_manager function creates a closure that manages a private environment (state). This function returns another function that handles read and write operations on the state.
We use R’s parallel package to simulate concurrent operations. The reads and writes clusters represent our channels.
The perform_reads and perform_writes functions simulate read and write operations.
We start multiple read and write operations using clusterApply.
After waiting for a second, we stop the clusters and print the final state.

This approach provides a way to manage state in R that’s somewhat analogous to the Go example, although R’s concurrency model is different from Go’s goroutines. The state is encapsulated within the closure returned by create_stateful_manager, ensuring that it’s only accessed through the defined interface.

Running this program will show the final state of the managed data after performing numerous read and write operations concurrently.

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