> By the by, what advantages does port4me have as compared to netstat?
As I said in my previous email, it doesn't require external tools, so
it's more likely to work out of the box for more people. But that
wasn't the main reason for this package. For the full motivation
behind port4me, see the vignette
<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/port4me/vignettes/port4me-overview.html>.
/Henrik
On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 11:00 AM akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at hotmail.com>
wrote:>
> Dear Henrik
> It is working....thanks a lot! I had actually
previously tried this: sudo yum install netstat rather than sudo yum install
net-tools
>
> By the by, what advantages does port4me have as compared to netstat?
>
> THanking you,
> Yours sincerely,
> AKSHAY M KULKARNI
>
> ________________________________
> From: Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 12:19 AM
> To: akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at hotmail.com>
> Cc: R help Mailing list <r-help at r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R] netstat in R in linux...
>
> Okay,
>
> that means that the Linux machine where you run this on does not have
> the 'netstat' software installed. That is something that needs to
be
> installed outside of R. For example, if it's Ubuntu, I think 'sudo
> apt info net-tools' will do.
>
> (Disclaimer: I'm the author)
> A cross-platform alternative to netstat::free_port(), is
> port4me::port4me(), which is also available from CRAN
> (https://cran.r-project.org/package=port4me). It requires no external
> tools, but R (>= 4.0.0).
>
> /Henrik
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 10:41 AM akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at
hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Henrik,
> > The error is:
> >
> > > library(netstat)
> > > free_port()
> > sh: netstat: command not found
> > Error in system("netstat -n -a", intern = TRUE) :
> > error in running command
> >
> > Thanking you,
> > Yours sincerely
> > AKSHAY M KULKARNI
> > ________________________________
> > From: Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 11:53 PM
> > To: akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at hotmail.com>
> > Cc: R help Mailing list <r-help at r-project.org>
> > Subject: Re: [R] netstat in R in linux...
> >
> > What's the error?!?
> >
> > /Henrik
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 10:19 AM akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at
hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > dear members,
> > >
> > > I am using free_port() in netstat package in R. It is working in
windows but not in linux. It is throwing an error in linux. ANy help please?
> > >
> > > THanking you,
> > > Yours sincerely
> > > AKSHAY M KULKARNI
> > >
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