[R] loading contrib packages automatically

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> 
> > Dear R people,
> > 
> > If I want to use a package, say nlme, I need to say library(nlme) to
> > load it. The same with any others. I often forget to do this. Is there
> > some way of telling R which packages should be loaded at the start?
> 
> Use a .First function, or, easier, put the library commands in your
> .Rprofile.
> 
> HOWEVER, using these will just slow down both the startup and the running
> of R, especially large packages such as nlme. One way is out is via
> judicious use of autoload() in your .Rprofile.

For example

	autoload("lme","nlme")
	autoload("nlme","nlme")
	autoload("print.lme","nlme")
and perhaps things like
	autoload("corSymm","nlme")

Autoloading on the print methods is useful to stop very large
stored objects printing as lists.


	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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