hook for when R quits

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<jeffrey.ryan at lemnica.com>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
 <lawrence.michael at gene.com>  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
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