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140 packages in R Commander!!

Dear Ajay,

This is a consequence of installing the dependencies (including "suggested"
packages, etc.) of the Rcmdr package, their dependencies, and so on
recursively. The alternative would be for the Rcmdr package to specify its
direct dependencies via "depends" rather than "suggests," but then these
dependencies would be loaded whenever the Rcmdr is loaded. 

If you have a better idea, I'm certainly open to it, since many, probably
most, of the packages that get installed aren't really needed by the Rcmdr
or by the packages on which it directly depends. The whole business takes
about 10 minutes on my not-all-that-fast Internet connection and occupies
about 250 MB (considerably less than 10 US cents at today's hard-disk
prices), which doesn't seem terrible to me.

Best,
 John

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John Fox
Senator William McMaster 
  Professor of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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