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2011 Jan 26
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Error handling with frozen RCurl function calls + Identification of frozen R processes
...involved.
Having said this, I'm lacking the time at the moment to deeply dive into
parallel computing and HTTP requests via RCurl and I hope you can help me
out with one or two imminent issues of my crawler/scraper:
Once a day, I'm running 'RCurl::getURIAsynchronous(x=URL.frontier.sub,
multiHandle=my.multi.handle)' within an lapply()-construct in order to read
chunks of deterministically composed URLs from a host. There are courtesy
time delays implemented between the individual http requests (5 times the
time the last request from this host took) so that I'm not clogging the
host. I...