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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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 -- Daniel Nordlund Port Townsend, WA USA -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
