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On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Jacob Wegelin wrote: > With the current version (rw1070), every time I start R it loads a whole > bunch of packages, many of which I do not need in a typical session: > > > search() > [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:methods" "package:ctest" "package:mva" > [5] "package:modreg" "package:nls" "package:ts" "Autoloads" > [9] "package:base" > > Loading all these packages makes R slow to start up, and I presume it > uses up memory too. Not much memory, and it is only methods which adds appreciable slowness. > Is there a reason that all these packages load automatically? Yes. (You didn't ask what it was.) > Is > there some way to stop this from happening, by changing some default? Yes, and that is in the CHANGES file: please read it. > A separate question also related to defaults: > > Is there a way to get R to refrain from truncating the .Rhistory file > (removing the earliest saved commands), so that .Rhistory might serve > as a permanent record of every command issued? Not in RGui, *but* you can change the buffer size in the Rconsole file or the Preferences. -- 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://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
