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

Sarah Goslee sarah.goslee at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 19:28:18 CET 2012


On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Federico Calboli
<f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 6 Mar 2012, at 18:01, Sarah Goslee wrote:
>
>> The help for warning offers some suggestions.
>
> none that seem to work though.

Where's your reproducible example of this? "Doesn't
seem to work" is unanswerable.

> F
>
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>>
>> 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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> Federico C. F. Calboli
> Neuroepidemiology and Ageing Research
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