RSelenium: Switching Windows using Window Handle - r

I've been working with RSelenium all day and still hitting road blocks here and there. My current issue is using the code WebElemReports$clickElement() which clicks a link and a new window opens. I tried to adjust Firefox settings in "about:config" so that it will not open a new window. It doesn't open a window in normal use, but using RSelenium, it opens a new window still. I also looked at this approach but couldn't follow the logic of how it worked:
How to clickElement() and open the link in the same tab
My next thought process was to use the switchToWindow() function along with getWindowHandles(). The code I wrote is as follows:
remDr$closeWindow()
windHand <- remDr$getWindowHandles()
remDr$switchToWindow(windHand)
My thinking is that I will close the current window so that there will only be one handle to reference and pass that handle to the switchToWindow function. I can't find much switchToWindow documentation for R. I receive the following error with using the code above:
Error: Summary: UnknownError
Detail: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command.
class: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException
Any help on this would be much appreciated--I tried to research this as much as possible so this won't get marked as a duplicate question like my last post. Many Thanks.

Actually you can't close main window, you can switch to child window as below :-
# get main window and store to switch back
currWindow <- remDr$getCurrentWindowHandle()
#gel all windows
windows <- remDr$getWindowHandles()
#loop through switching child window
for (window in windows[[1]]) {
if (window != currWindow[[1]])
remDr$switchToWindow(window)
}
#now do your stuff with child window
#now close your child window after doing all stuff
remDr$closeWindow()
#now switch back to main window for further stuff
remDr$switchToWindow(currWindow[[1]])

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My code 's first line:
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Some background:
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Executing a subitem directly
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/accessibility.iaccessible.aspx
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