From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Jul 15 10:28:13 1999
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:28:13 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: .Last is usually not called (PR#227)
Message-ID: <199907150928.LAA05145@pubhealth.ku.dk>

R-0.64.2 and R-devel:

[I found this by looking at the code.]

A .Last function is _only_ called if the condition that causes termination
is EOF on the console or input:

> .Last <- function() cat("ran .Last\n")
> q("no")
returns to the shell.

> .Last <- function() cat("ran .Last\n")
> # I hit ^D here
ran .Last
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n

The problem is that .Last is handled in end_Rmainloop(), and that is
not called by q(). We need to move the handling to R_CleanUp (and
for some reason do_quit is system-dependent, so need not even call
R_CleanUp). I'll work on this.

I did check the documentation: ?quit does claim .Last should be called:

     Immediately before terminating, the function `.Last()'
     is executed if it exists.

Brian

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.Last is usually not called (PR#227)
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