In R 3.5 and later you should not need to gc() -- that should happen
automatically within the connections code.
Nevertheless, I would recommend redesigning your approach to avoid
hanging onto open file connections as these are a scarce resource.
You can keep around your temporary files without ha
Dear Uwe,
(When replying to your message, I sent the reply to r-devel and not
r-package-devel, as Martin Meachler suggested that this thread would be
a better fit for r-devel.)
Thanks. In the example below I used rm() explicitly, but in general
users wouldn't do that.
One of the reasons fo
