Re: [Rd] Loading of namespace on load of .Rdata (was strange behaviour of load)

2006-01-21 Thread Roger Peng
[R-help removed] See below. Heather Turner wrote: > > 1. There is a more general situation where it would be useful to load > the namespace of a package after loading a saved workspace: when the > workspace contains objects of a class for which special methods are > required. E.g. if 'fm' from

Re: [Rd] Loading of namespace on load of .Rdata (was strange behaviour of load)

2006-01-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Heather Turner wrote: [Lines wrapped for legibility and R-help removed as it is not an appropriate list.] > Last week Giovanni Parrinello posted a message asking why various > packages were loaded when he loaded an .Rdata file. Brian Ripley replied > saying he thought it w

[Rd] Loading of namespace on load of .Rdata (was strange behaviour of load)

2006-01-18 Thread Heather Turner
Last week Giovanni Parrinello posted a message asking why various packages were loaded when he loaded an .Rdata file. Brian Ripley replied saying he thought it was because the saved workspace contained a reference to the namespace of ipred. (Correspondence copied below). This begs the question: