[R] How to define a destructor of an object?

[Thomas Lumley]

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