[R] R-0.65.1 Startup

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 partha_bagchi at hgsi.com wrote:

> Dear R users,
> I have noticed that my R startup is extremely slow. It takes almost 3
> minutes  from "double-click" to R prompt. I have been running R-0.64.1 till
> recently and it took about 30 sec. I still have access to R-0.64.1. When I
> started it up, it took about 25 sec. Can anyone tell me if this is a bug in
> R or a problem with my machine?

I have also noticed a slow startup under Win98 on a reasonably fast
machine. In fact, the startup is not unreasonably slow -- many large
programs take this long to start up. The problem is that there isn't much
indication that something is happening, so I have sometimes assumed I only
clicked once on the icon and tried again, resulting in two or three R
processes.

Perhaps Rgui should display a splash screen while it's loading?

	-thomas



> Note: This is after bootup with R being the first application I am running
> (not counting sundry taskbar items ).
> Details:
> platform Windows
> arch     x86
> os       Win32
> system   x86, Win32
> status   Release
> major    0
> minor    65.1
> year     1999
> month    October
> day      07
> language R
> 
> Win95 on a 600Mhz Pentium III with 256M RAM (yeah a new machine that I just
> got).
> 
> The R-shortcut setup (which is the same for R-0.64.1) is
> C:\R\rw0651\bin\Rgui.exe --vsize 25M --nsize 10M
> 
> If I need to provide more information, please let me know.
> TIA.
> 
> Partha.
> 
> 
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