[Rd] R-devel now uses lazy loading

2004-07-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The R-devel version of R now uses lazy loading, in which objects in a package are initially stored in a database and replaced by a promise. This makes R much faster to start up (40% of the previous time) and it will (usually) use a smaller footprint. Given the loss of the CVS archive whilst I

Re: [Rd] Discussion of the GPL on Groklaw

2004-07-22 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 07:47, Douglas Bates wrote: > I'm not looking to start a discussion of the GPL on R-devel; I'm just > giving a reference because the subject of the GPL, the license under > which R is issued, has been brought up on this list. > > If you want to follow some of the legal disc

[Rd] Discussion of the GPL on Groklaw

2004-07-22 Thread Douglas Bates
I'm not looking to start a discussion of the GPL on R-devel; I'm just giving a reference because the subject of the GPL, the license under which R is issued, has been brought up on this list. If you want to follow some of the legal discussion of the Free Software Foundation's General Public Lic

[Rd] lme4 (PR#7125)

2004-07-22 Thread John Maindonald
This was sent by mistake, in the course of trying to generate platform information to send directly to Stefanos, Deepayan and Doug. My apologies. John Maindonald email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone : +61 2 (6125)3473fax : +61 2(6125)5549 Centre for Bioinformation Science, Room 1194,