free_port returning only one port...

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
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

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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

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dear Dan,
                   Yes, i just read the documentation...Previously i was using it with RSelenium package and never got to know that the argument random defaulted to FALSE. I was just using it blindly...only now I got to know that you must set random = TRUE to get different values across invocations...
Thanks anyways...

Thanking you,
Yours sincerely
AKSHAY M KULKARNI
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
>

 thousands of ports. What has gone wrong?
>
> thanking you,
> Yours sincerely,
> AKSHAY M KULKARNI
>
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>
> ______________________________________________
> 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.

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

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Daniel Nordlund
Port Townsend, WA  USA

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