Thanks Joris, it makes sense now, though the doc is a bit misleading.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Joris Meys wrote:
> Hi Karl,
>
> that is expected. The moment you close a connection, it is destroyed as well
> (see ?close). A destroyed connection cannot be tested. In fact, I've used
> isOpen
Hi Karl,
that is expected. The moment you close a connection, it is destroyed as
well (see ?close). A destroyed connection cannot be tested. In fact, I've
used isOpen() only in combination with the argument rw.
> con <- file("clipboard",open="r")
> isOpen(con,"write")
[1] FALSE
cheers
On Thu,