On 4/10/2006 6:16 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> I'm sure I've seen this discussed before, but haven't been able to find >> it. I'd like some package code to be run when R is shut down >> (approximately when a user's .Last function would be run), to clean up >> properly. What is the best way to do this? > > The only way I know to do this is to use a finalizer, as we don't run > .Last.lib on shutdown. (That's how RODBC does it.) > > Now, as I recall this cannot be done from reg.finalizer, only from the > C-level R_RegisterCFinalizerEx, which has an optional argument to ensure > that the finalizer is run 'onexit'. (I have never understood why we have > that restriction, nor why reg.finalizer is primitive and not .Internal.)
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