On 24/07/2012 07:11, Winston Chang wrote:
I've noticed that many of the base R packages have an .onUnload()
function which automatically unloads compiled shared libraries
with library.dynam.unload(). For example:
stats:::.onUnload
function (libpath)
library.dynam.unload(stats, libpath)
bytecode: 0x1033b9c30
environment: namespace:stats
I've noticed that many other packages don't do this. Is it considered good
practice to do this in packages that have compiled code?
Yes, but do not all packages have well-enough written DSOs to do this.
(Tcl/Tk does not, so we no longer attempt to upload tcltk.dll.)
-Winston
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