[Rd] on.exit called on loading ?

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Tue Jan 16 22:02:08 CET 2007


I just found out that an .onLoad() function such as this stylized one (where
I just renamed some identifiers)


.onLoad <- function(lib, pkg) {
  require(zoo, quiet=TRUE, warn.conflicts=FALSE)
  library.dynam("foolib", pkg, lib )
  if (.Platform$OS.type != "windows") {
    initSomeServices()
  }
  if (.Platform$OS.type != "windows") {
    on.exit(closeSomeServices())
  }
}

actually triggers a call of 'closeSomeServices()'. I am probably
misunderstanding something here -- but I thought on.exit() would only be
called on, well, exit ?

Dirk

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