[Rd] Invalid connection after closing?

[Joris Meys]

Thx for the information. I read it, but I wasn't sure what was going
on inside. Is there a way to close a connection without destroying it?
Guess not, but you never know...

Cheers
Joris

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/04/2011 10:56 AM, Joris Meys wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I do not completely understand following behaviour :
>>
>> >  con<- file("test.txt")
>> >  isOpen(con)
>> [1] FALSE
>> >  open(con)
>> >  isOpen(con)
>> [1] TRUE
>> >  close(con)
>> >  isOpen(con)
>> Error in isOpen(con) : invalid connection
>> >  str(con)
>> Classes 'file', 'connection'  atomic [1:1] 3
>>   ..- attr(*, "conn_id")=<externalptr>
>>
>> Why do I get an error, indicating an invalid connection, after I
>> closed a connection? Is this to be expected?
>
> Quoting ?close: " ‘close’ closes and destroys a connection. " In the current
> implementation, connections are a finite resource, and you need to be able
> to get rid of them when you are done. close(con) is the way to do that. If
> you want to re-open it, you need to remember the filename (or extract it
> before calling close()), and issue another call to file().
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>



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