[Rd] sys.on.exit not working (PR#7665)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It is working as documented: there is no on.exit set for str, is there?

      'sys.on.exit()' retrieves the expression stored for use by
      'on.exit' in the function currently being evaluated. (Note that
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      this differs from S, which returns a list of expressions for the
      current frame and its parents.)

I see you have looked at PR#269, but did not notice the crucial 
difference: here the current function is str (it is evaluating its 
arguments), not soe.test.

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 mark.bravington at csiro.au wrote:

> Full_Name: Mark Bravington
> Version: 2.0.1
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (140.79.22.104)
>
>
> 'sys.on.exit()' doesn't seem to be working, since R1.7.1 at least:

Please read the FAQ: we don't want R-bugs clogged up with `doesn't seem to 
be working' reports, and we do say so.

> soe.test <- function() {
>  on.exit( cat( 'In exit code\n'))
>  str( sys.on.exit()) # should display "language..." I think
>  12
> }
>
> (A similar bug was apparently fixed for version 0.65!)

One difference being that PR#269 was a bug, and this is not.

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