Thanks, Thomas. This is exactly what I want. I am wondering why there is no explicit mention about this function, such as, in the help document of gc().
Daehyok Shin (Peter) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas Lumley > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 AM 10:29 > To: Shin, Daehyok > Cc: R, Help > Subject: Re: [R] How to define a destructor of an object? > > > On Tue, 18 May 2004, Shin, Daehyok wrote: > > > Is there any way to define a destructor method of an object, > > which is called automatically when garbage collector reclaims it? > > > > yes, there is support for finalizers at both the C and R levels. For the R > level see ?reg.finalizer. I thought there was documentation for the C > stuff on developer.r-project.org, but I can't see it now. > > -thomas > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html