Paul, I also bit me recently; can't quite recall the circumstances but it was somehow related to an error. What binds here, as far as a I know, is the 'open files' constraint from the OS and shell, not so much R's.
I do not know a way to increase it on a running session. Sorry. Hth, Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ R-sig-DB mailing list -- R Special Interest Group R-sig-DB@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-db