As far as I can tell, 'isOpen' cannot return FALSE in the case when 'rw = ""'. If the connection has already been closed by 'close' or some other function, then isOpen will produce an error. The problem is that when isOpen calls 'getConnection', the connection cannot be found and 'getConnection' produces an error. The check to see if it is open is never actually done.
This came up in some code where I'm trying to clean up connections after successfully opening them. The problem is that if I try to close a connection that has already been closed, I get an error (because 'getConnection' cannot find it). But then there's no way for me to find out if a connection has already been closed. Perhaps there's another approach I should be taking? The context is basically, con <- file("foo", "w") tryCatch({ ## Do stuff that might fail writeLines(stuff, con) close(con) file.copy("foo", "bar") }, finally = { close(con) }) So the problem is that if the block in the 'tryCatch' succeeds, the 'finally' will produce an error. I'm not exactly sure of what I'd want since it seems modifying 'getConnection' would not be a great idea as it is used elsewhere. -roger -- Roger D. Peng | http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel