On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Paul Roebuck wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Paul Roebuck wrote: > >> What exactly is a reference object? I'm getting this error >> message attempting to register a finalizer: >> >> can only weakly reference/finalize reference objects > > Still don't have an explanation for the above but the code > now works with the following mods. > > -static void ProbesetGE_finalizer(SEXP vntData) > +static void ProbesetGE_finalizer(SEXP vntHandle) > > -R_RegisterCFinalizer(vntData, (R_CFinalizer_t)ProbesetGE_finalizer); > +R_RegisterCFinalizer(vntHandle, (R_CFinalizer_t)ProbesetGE_finalizer); > > Original thought was that a finalizer was a routine that > ran prior to an object's destruction (like a destructor).
Do you have a reference for where you got that from? > Apparently, only certain objects can have finalizers. Yes. See http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/references.html (linked off the developer site). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
