[R] Disable LazyLoading mechanism completely

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat Apr 1 14:17:57 CEST 2006


On 3/31/2006 6:03 PM, Paul Roebuck wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 
>> On 3/31/2006 5:15 PM, Paul Roebuck wrote:
>>> Is there a global option somewhere that can completely
>>> disable the LazyLoad option? I want all my packages
>>> in source format for searching purposes, crippled by
>>> the conversion to database format.
>> Why not just keep the source?  Maybe I misunderstood where
>> you're thinking of searching, but I think even without
>> LazyLoad, you'll lose comments in the functions.
> 
> My thought is something along the lines of
> 
> options(lazy.load = FALSE)
> 
> which would override the setting in the DESCRIPTION file
> as though every package had set it as:
> 
> LazyLoad: no
> 
> I want the ability to patch/search the code by default.
> LazyLoad removes this capability. I know there will be a
> minor speed hit and accept that in exchange for the above
> capability.

Lazy loading just replaces each object with a promise to load it, right? 
  So if you need to do a search/patch, couldn't you force those promises 
during the search?

Duncan Murdoch




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