Retaining regularly used add-ons

I'm a bit surprised that people haven't mentioned autoload().

The potential downside of loading to many packages or `large' packages
unnecessarily, I believe, is a bit slower response as R need to search
through a lot of names (in addition to taking up memory).

Cheers,
Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Keefe [mailto:keef9490 at uidaho.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 3:24 PM
To: r-help at hypatia.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Retaining regularly used add-ons



Hi everyone,

How might I go about configuring R to keep
add-on packages loaded from session to session?

Is this undesireable for some reason?

At present, I keep a file called "pckgs.txt" in my
working directory with, e.g.,

library(gnlm)
library(Hmisc)
...

and then type source("add-ons.txt") every time I start
a new session. I suspect there's a more elegant way
to hold on to the packages I use regularly?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or insight, and
a big thanks to all for creating and maintaining such
a powerful tool.

Regards,

Rob

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Department of Forest Resources
University of Idaho
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Moscow, ID
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