Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that R finalizes all of its objects when it quits. At least a simple test suggests that on Linux.
Michael On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Jeffrey Ryan <jeffrey.r...@lemnica.com>wrote: > Take a look at reg.finalizer. You'd have to create an object > internally that would persist until R exits - and a related function > to handle cleanup of course. > > HTH > Jeff > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Michael Lawrence > <lawrence.mich...@gene.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way that a package can listen for when R quits? The Qt stuff > is > > hooking into platform-specific event loops and when those die > unexpectedly > > (from the perspective of Qt), it aborts, causing an annoying error > dialog. > > If we could catch when R is killed, we could cleanup, like we do with > > .onUnload. > > > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > > > -- > Jeffrey Ryan > jeffrey.r...@lemnica.com > > www.lemnica.com > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
