R devel - Mar 2011 - hook for when R quits

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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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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>
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