>With the call to gc(), the garbage collector will be called some time in
the
>future and the finalizers will be run then.
Typo: that initial 'With' should be 'Without'.
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 12:57 PM, William Dunlap wrote:
> >>rm(curl) # rel
: Tom Wright , R help list
Subject: Re: [R] Closing FTP sessions with RCurl
>>rm(curl) # release the curl! (does this end the session???)
Try adding a call to gc() immediately after this removal. That will force an
immediate run of any finalizer associated with the object just r
>>rm(curl) # release the curl! (does this end the session???)
Try adding a call to gc() immediately after this removal. That will force
an
immediate run of any finalizer associated with the object just removed.
With the call to gc(), the garbage collector will be called some time in the
futur
Thanks Tom! I tried that and it didn’t work, but perhaps there are other
problems. The system administrator wrote “I think closing sessions immediately
upon completion of the transfer,
or continuing to use the same session for additional requests would both have a
similar and positive effect.”
No expert here, and this isn't tested. It seems you can set the
forbid.reuse option which will cause curl to shutdown the connection
after transfer is complete.
if(url.exists("http://www.omegahat.net/RCurl/index.html";)) {
curl <- getCurlHandle()
curlSetOpt(.opts=list(forbid.reuse=1),curl=cu
Does anyone know how to close an FTP session with RCurl? I am trying to
automate the process of downloading snow data from a government website, and
their server is throttling the connection after a few files are downloaded. I
contacted their system administrator, who wrote: “My suspicion at t
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