On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> External pointers are the standard way to do that. You don't need to worry > about reference counting, R's garbage collector will call a finalizer when > it doesn't need the object any more. > > I think the usual example of this is the RODBC package, which maintains > database connections that way. > > If it and the Writing R Extensions manual aren't enough docs for you, you > should probably move the question to the R-devel list: this is pretty > technical for R-help. > > Duncan Murdoch > Thanks. I've read all the manuals and my situation is more complicated than the external ptrs and finalizers can handle. I'll probe the R-devel list and see what I can get. -- Yi ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
