Thanks for the quick responses. As you both suggested storing the packages to local drive is feasible but comes with a size restriction I wanted to avoid. I'll keep this in mind as plan B. @Hugh: 2. would impose even greater slowdowns and 4. is just not feasible. However, 3. sounds interesting - how would this work in a Linux environment?
Thank you, Mario Am So., 19. Juli 2020 um 20:11 Uhr schrieb Hugh Parsonage < hugh.parson...@gmail.com>: > My advice would be to avoid the network in one of the following ways > > 1. Store installed packages on your local drive > 2. Copy the installed packages to a tempdir on your local drive each time > the script is executed > 3. Keep an R session running in perpetuity and source the scripts within > that everlasting session > 4. Rewrite your scripts to use base R only. > > I suspect this solution list is exhaustive. > > On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 1:50 am, Mario Annau <mario.an...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> in our current setting we have our packages stored on a (rather slow) >> network drive and need to invoke short R scripts (using RScript) in a >> timely manner. Most of the script's runtime is spent with package loading >> using library() (or loadNamespace to be precise). >> >> Is there a way to cache the package namespaces as listed in >> loadedNamespaces() and load them into memory before the script is >> executed? >> >> My first simplistic attempt was to serialize the environment output >> from loadNamespace() to a file and load it before the script is started. >> However, loading the object automatically also loads all the referenced >> namespaces (from the slow network share) which is undesirable for this use >> case. >> >> Cheers, >> Mario >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
