vanilla session in R Gui or RStudio
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:13:11 -0700
Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:
As Jeff says, it might be that you have a ~/.Rprofile file with instructions to load packages when R starts. It could also be that you have a .RData file, which is saved if you answer yes to:
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y
when you quit R. If this file exists, then R loads it and all the objects you had when you saved it. If there are objects associated with packages, then that will cause those packages to be loaded when R starts.
<SNIP> I don't believe that the forgoing is *exactly* correct. Perhaps it depends on what is meant by "objects associated with packages". I have vague recollections that funny things can happen if objects in the saved .RData file have complicated environments, but I can't remember details. cheers, Rolf Turner
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