[R] Closing R fails

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/9/2006 7:18 AM, john seers (IFR) wrote:
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> Hello All
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> I cannot close R easily:
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>> q()
> Error in .Last() : could not find function "finalizeSession"
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> This seems to have started after I used the R.utils package. If I load
> the R.utils package I can close R successfully. But I do not want to
> have to do this every time I run R.

You seem to have a .Last function defined that contains a call to 
finalizeSession.  Remove it and the error should go away:

.Last # to print it and see if anything important is there
rm(.Last) # to remove it if not

Normally you don't need .Last, but you can define it if you want R to do 
something on shutdown.  It looks like R.utils did that for you at some 
point, and you saved the workspace afterwards.

Duncan Murdoch

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> Is there any way I can switch off /reverse this behaviour? (I have had a
> look in the archives/documentation but cannot find a solution).
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> Thanks for any help.
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> John Seers
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>> R.version$os 
> [1] "mingw32"
>> R.version.string
> [1] "R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-29 r39744)"
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