Hi R-help users.. I mistakenly posted a now rejected bug report (https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14855), but the subject still bugs me..!
If I have a package called MyPackage with C code inside, then library or require(MyPackage) will call loadNamespace() which will look for and call: void R_init_MyPackage(DllInfo *info) At the end of the R session, the corresponding unload function is however *not* called. void R_unload_MyPackage(DllInfo *info) I use the two functions to call R_cholmod_start(CHM_CM) and cholmod_finish(CHM_CM) respectively, and I think this might leak memory if the latter is not called. Firstly, why is one called without the package maker having to think about it, while the other is not? Secondly, how do I make sure that the unload function is called -- using either .Last.lib or .onUnload to call unloadNamespace() seems like a bad idea, as unloadNamespace() is documented to call back to these hooks (the call cycle would have to by broken by other means)? Kind regards, Henrik Alsing Friberg ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
