Re: [Rd] hook for when R quits

2011-03-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/03/2011 3:11 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 11/03/2011 1:37 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that R finalizes all of its >>> obj

Re: [Rd] hook for when R quits

2011-03-11 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 11/03/2011 1:37 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote: >>> >>> 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 th

Re: [Rd] hook for when R quits

2011-03-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 11/03/2011 1:37 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote: 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. Did you use onexit=TRUE? On Windows that appears to work...

Re: [Rd] hook for when R quits

2011-03-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/03/2011 1:37 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote: 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. Did you use onexit=TRUE? On Windows that appears to work... Duncan Murdoch Michael On Fri, Mar 11, 2

Re: [Rd] hook for when R quits

2011-03-11 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
See onSessionExit() in the R.utils package, e.g. onSessionExit(function(...) { cat("Bye bye world!\n"); }) quit(); Please pay attention to the Details section of help(onSessionExit); there are ways that R can exit that will not be detected/handled. /Henrik On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:37 AM, M

Re: [Rd] hook for when R quits

2011-03-11 Thread Michael Lawrence
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 wrote: > Take a look at reg.finalizer. You'd have to create an object > internally that would per

Re: [Rd] hook for when R quits

2011-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Ryan
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 wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way that a package can listen for when R quits