[R] Too many open files

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try closeAllConnections()

On 5/26/06, Omar Lakkis <uofiowa at gmail.com> wrote:
> This may be more of an OS question ...
> I have this call
>
> r = get.hist.quote(symbol, start= format(start, "%Y-%m-%d"), end=
> format(end, "%Y-%m-%d"))
> which does a url request
>
> in a loop and my program runs out of file handlers after few hundred
> rotations. The error message is:  'Too many open files'. Other than
> increasing the file handlers assigned to my process, is there a way to
> cleanly release and reuse these connections?
>
> I run on Mac OS X
>
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