[Rd] Reset an embedded R.dll

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 14 May 2008, Bernd Schoeller wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I am learning how to use the R.dll unter Windows to embed an R interpreter 
> into another programming language.
>
> What I would like to know, and I have not yet found an answer in the 
> documentation: is there a way to 'reset' the interpreter to bring it to the 
> state that it was directly after the call of the initialization routine?

Call the exit and initialization routines.  That will not completely reset 
things (it will not unload package DLLs for example), but it is the 
nearest that is provided.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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