Hey all, thanks for your input... assigning the connection and then using unlink works just fine.
Thanks On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Gray Calhoun <gray.calh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Nick, > I hope you're being a little disingenuous about how hard you looked.... > > Typing ?close will pull up the right help page. I think you're > having trouble because you don't store the file object in a variable, > so there's no convenient way to refer to it when you need to close it > (or when you want to write to it...). Do three different steps: 1) > open file. 2) write to file. 3) close file; and you should be fine. > > You also don't need to open the file 125 times: open it before the loop. > > --Gray > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Nick Torenvliet > <nick.torenvl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I run the following code in a loop I get an error after about 125 > times > > saying too many open files... > > > > > > if(inherits(atmpt, "try-error")){ > > output <- paste(yahooSymbol,"\n",sep="") > > write(output, file = "data", append = TRUE, sep = "") > > } else { > > > > > > I've tried various things to close the file after write opens it, and > looked > > through the RBase docs... but I can't find anything that succesfully > closes > > the file. > > > > This is obviously trivial... any ideas > > > > Nick > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > 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. > > > > > > -- > Gray Calhoun > > Assistant Professor of Economics > Iowa State University > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.