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Dear Uwe, (When replying to your message, I sent the reply to r-devel and not r-package-devel, as Martin Meachler suggested that this thread would be a better fit for r-devel.) Thanks. In the example below I used rm() explicitly, but in general users wouldn't do that. One of the reasons for the large number of file handles is that sometimes unnamed temporary objects are created. For

Dear Luke, Thanks. See below On 07-08-18 17:07, luke-tierney at uiowa.edu wrote: > In R 3.5 and later you should not need to gc() -- that should happen > automatically within the connections code. Could you elaborate on what has changed in R 3.5? As far as I can tell my problem also occurs in R 3.5 (my computer is still on 3.4.4; but I assume the solaris CRAN machine isn't). And

In R 3.5 and later you should not need to gc() -- that should happen automatically within the connections code. Nevertheless, I would recommend redesigning your approach to avoid hanging onto open file connections as these are a scarce resource. You can keep around your temporary files without having them open and only open/close them on access, with the close run in an on.exit or a