Is there any way to define a destructor method of an object, which is called automatically when garbage collector reclaims it? Daehyok Shin
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Shin, Daehyok wrote:> Is there any way to define a destructor method of an object, > which is called automatically when garbage collector reclaims it? >yes, there is support for finalizers at both the C and R levels. For the R level see ?reg.finalizer. I thought there was documentation for the C stuff on developer.r-project.org, but I can't see it now. -thomas