aborting the execution of a function...
Dar Jeff,
Many thanks...
Yours sincerely,
AKHAY M KULKARNI
From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2022 1:18 AM
To: r-help at r-project.org <r-help at r-project.org>; akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at hotmail.com>; R help Mailing list <r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] aborting the execution of a function...
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2022 1:18 AM
To: r-help at r-project.org <r-help at r-project.org>; akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at hotmail.com>; R help Mailing list <r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] aborting the execution of a function...
This would be easy for you to test on a small example on your local computer. But the answer is "no". Nothing is assigned if the function does not return normally... and Ctrl+C is anything but normal. On July 13, 2022 12:19:58 PM PDT, akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at hotmail.com> wrote: >Dear members, > I am running a large scraping code in a very powerful AWS ec2 instance: > >DATES <- getFirms Dates() > >It iterates over 500 stocks from a website. Despite the power of the machine, the execution is very slow. > >If I abort the function (by ctrl + C), after, say 150th iteration, the DATES object will still contain the scraped data untill the 150th iteration, right? ( The rest of the 350 entries will be NA's, I suppose). > >Many thanks in advance..... > >Yours sincerely, >AKSHAY M KULKARNI > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help at 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. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.