[R] closing file with close(file) *silently*

Federico Calboli f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk
Tue Mar 6 19:20:39 CET 2012


On 6 Mar 2012, at 18:01, Sarah Goslee wrote:

> The help for warning offers some suggestions.

none that seem to work though.

F



> 
> Sarah
> 
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Federico Calboli
> <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I am writing a function that reads a file in
>> 
>> myfile = file('myfile.raw', 'rb')
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> close(myfile)
>> 
>> No matter what, I get the warning
>> 
>> Warning message:
>> closing unused connection 3 (myfile.raw)
>> 
>> Since the whole thing is in a function, I'd like to avoid unecessary noise for the user, and I'd like to kill the warning -- without having to mess with global options.
>> 
>> Any ideas how?
>> 
>> BW
>> 
>> F
>> 
> -- 
> Sarah Goslee
> http://www.functionaldiversity.org

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