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 <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way that a package can listen for when R quits? The Qt stuff > is > > hooking into platform-specific event loops and when those die > unexpectedly > > (from the perspective of Qt), it aborts, causing an annoying error > dialog. > > If we could catch when R is killed, we could cleanup, like we do with > > .onUnload. > > > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > > > -- > Jeffrey Ryan > [email protected] > > www.lemnica.com > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
