From hb at biostat.ucsf.edu  Fri Mar 11 19:49:17 2011
From: hb at biostat.ucsf.edu (Henrik Bengtsson)
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:49:17 -0800
Subject: [Rd] hook for when R quits
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See onSessionExit() in the R.utils package, e.g.

onSessionExit(function(...) {
  cat("Bye bye world!\n");
})

quit();

Please pay attention to the Details section of help(onSessionExit);
there are ways that R can exit that will not be detected/handled.

/Henrik

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
>> --
>> Jeffrey Ryan
>> jeffrey.ryan at lemnica.com
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[Rd] hook for when R quits
Henrik Bengtsson