On 1 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> However, that just isn't how connections are documented in the Green
> Book (referenced on all the relevant help pages, so required
> reading) and getConnection() allows you to create an R object
> pointing to a connection that previously had none.
Yes, p. 384 of my copy of the Green Book explains:
Once a connection has been opened, the evaluation manager keeps it
open until it is explicitly closed, or the session ends, even if
no corresponding S connection object exists.
What are some advantages of this design choice?
> The OP has never told us what anonymous connections' are, but it is
> quite possible that his unstated ideas are incompatible with the
> documentation.
Yep. The current behavior is as documented in the Green Book and yes,
the enhancement I would like is incompatible with that documentation.
What is an anonymous connection? Well, really what I want is for the
evaluation manager to clean up connections that have no corresponding
S connection objects referring to them. Then the code examples that
are part of this thread would work.
+ seth
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