ESS+R not closing gracefully

[A.J. Rossini]

Damon Wischik <djw1005 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> I am having trouble with ESS+R. I don't know if it is an ESS
> problem or an R problem; I posted this message to the R-help
> mailing list and was told it's probably an issue in ESS/Emacs/Windows.

It's an Emacs/Windows thing, that either R can fix or Emacs can fix.

1. The R folks don't have time right now, 
2. we could talk to the Emacs folks, 
3. it's not an ESS problem per say, but an ESS issue, since we
   leverage both R and Emacs.

conclusion -- it probably won't get fixed anytime soon, until someone
does some gory debugging of Emacs and R under Windows to understand
why/how file refs are staying open.  Sorry.  

best,
-tony

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