[R] free_port returning only one port...

[Daniel Nordlund]

On 1/8/2023 11:35 AM, akshay kulkarni wrote:
> Dear members,
>                              I am using free_port from the netstat package, but it is returning only one value:
>
>> library(netstat)
>> free_port()
> [1] 14415
>
> This is occurring in both Linux and Windows. Previously it used to output thousands of ports. What has gone wrong?
>
> thanking you,
> Yours sincerely,
> AKSHAY M KULKARNI
>
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I haven't used that function before, and I don't know what you 
previously experienced, but if you set the parameter random=TRUE you 
will get a different port on each invocation

free_port(random=TRUE)


Hope this is helpful,

Dan

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