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[R. Michael Weylandt]

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MW

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Manasvi Dobhal <manasvidobhal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> The TWS on my system is unable to connect to my R session. Here is the
> error that I'm getting:
>
> *> tws<-twsConnect()
> Error in socketConnection(host = host, port = port, open = "ab", blocking =
> blocking) :
> cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In socketConnection(host = host, port = port, open = "ab", blocking =
> blocking) :
> localhost:7496 cannot be opened*
>
> Here is the session info for the R session:
>
> *R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)*
> **
>
> *Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)*
>
> **
>
> *locale:*
>
> * [1] LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8LC_NUMERIC=C*
>
> * [3] LC_TIME=en_IN.UTF-8LC_COLLATE=en_IN.UTF-8*
>
> * [5] LC_MONETARY=en_IN.UTF-8LC_MESSAGES=en_IN.UTF-8*
>
> * [7] LC_PAPER=CLC_NAME=C*
>
> * [9] LC_ADDRESS=CLC_TELEPHONE=C*
>
> *[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_IN.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C*
>
> * *
>
> *attached base packages:*
>
> *[1] statsgraphicsgrDevices utilsdatasets *
>
> *[6] methodsbase*
>
> * *
>
> *other attached packages:*
>
> *[1] IBrokers_0.9-10 xts_0.8-6zoo_1.7-8*
>
> * *
>
> *loaded via a namespace (and not attached):*
>
> *[1] grid_2.15.1lattice_0.20-0 tools_2.15.1*
>
> **
>
>
>
> I have checked the "Enable Activex and Socket clients"  but it hasn't
> helped. Since I'm running on an Ubuntu machine, I even tried changing the
> parameter *blocking *in the command *twsConnect() *to
>
> 1. *blocking = FALSE*
>
> 2. According to the one mentioned here
> http://code.google.com/p/ibrokers/source/detail?r=84&path=/trunk/R/twsConnect.R
>
> but nothing has helped.
>
>
>
> Please let me know what I should do.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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