Thanks for your advice.

As this is partially just a project for myself, I am also considering using this to help research a paper of forensic detection of network based steganography. My intention is to generate known carrier packets from one test VM and send them to another test VM while collecting them through wireshark. The main part of this is pretty clear, however, the hard part is coming up with the script which I may use.

However, your advice has been helpful, and I'll take a look at R when I get home to see how I can use it.

Thanks again for the advice.