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Date: 2022-07-14T16:09:12Z
From: akshay kulkarni
Subject: aborting the execution of a function...
In-Reply-To: <A5DEF48F-C65C-4A09-9A7B-DB48BCF2C168@dcn.davis.ca.us>
Dar Jeff,
Many thanks...
Yours sincerely,
AKHAY M KULKARNI
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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...
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
>
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