G'day David,
On Sun, 10 May 2009 17:17:38 -0400
"David A Vavra" <dava...@verizon.net> wrote:
> The dataset package is being loaded apparently by one of the packages
> that I am using. The loading of the datasets takes a long time and I
> would like to eliminate it. I thought the datasets were effectively
> examples so don't understand why they would be required at all.
>
> 1) How can I determine what is causing the datasets to be loaded?
help(options)
and then read the part on "defaultPackages"
> 2) How can I stop them from doing so?
Create an appropriate .Rprofile. R-DownUnder had long time ago a
discussion on what people put into their .Rprofile, and Bill
Venables' .Rprofile seem to contain the following snippet:
### puts four more packages on to the default
### search path. I use them all the time
local({
old <- getOption("defaultPackages")
options(defaultPackages = c(old, "splines",
"lattice", "mgcv", "MASS"))
})
> I am using the following:
>
> Rpart, grDevices, graphics, stats, utils, methods, base
> There is also an environment named 'Autoloads'
Rpart?? Or rpart?? I know of a package with the latter name but not
the former, and R is case sensitive.
So you may try:
local({
options(defaultPackages=c("rpart", "grDevices", "graphics", "stats",
"utils", "methods")
})
FWIW, note that for command XXX, help(XXX) will give you a help page
that has usually some example code at the end, that code can be run by
example(XXX). Typically, such example code is using data sets from
the datasets package; so if you do not load it, the example() command
might not work anymore for some functions.
Don't complain if your R installation doesn't work anymore if you mess
around with defaultPackages, in particular if you remove packages that
are usually in the default of defaultPackages. :)
And I agree with Rolf (Turner), it is hard to believe that the
datasets package would produce a noticeable delay on start-up; for me
it also loads instantaneously. I guess that your problem is more
along David's (Winsemuis) guess.
Cheers,
Berwin
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