Herik's suggestion is an absolutely good practice which guarantees the device is always closed. That is what I did in the knitr package, so you can probably take a look at http://yihui.name/knitr/
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Alexander Shenkin <ashen...@ufl.edu> wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Henrik. Process Explorer still shows the file > handle as being open, but R only shows the following: > >> showConnections(all=TRUE) > description class mode text isopen can read can write > 0 "stdin" "terminal" "r" "text" "opened" "yes" "no" > 1 "stdout" "terminal" "w" "text" "opened" "no" "yes" > 2 "stderr" "terminal" "w" "text" "opened" "no" "yes" >> > > On 4/4/2012 2:45 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: >> See ?closeAllConnections >> >> Suggestion to the maintainer of Sweave: "atomify" the figure >> generation, e.g. use { pdf(); on.exit(dev.off()); {...}; } or similar, >> instead of { pdf(); {...}; dev.off(); } possibly by leaving a copy of >> the fault figure file for troubleshooting. >> >> /Henrik >> ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
