Thanks. Perhaps something else is going on. There is a large time period (about 20 sec.) after the message about loading the package. More investigation, I suppose.
Thanks again, DAV -----Original Message----- From: Rolf Turner [mailto:r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz] Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 7:34 PM To: David A Vavra Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Unintended loading of package:datasets On 11/05/2009, at 9:17 AM, David A Vavra 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? > 2) How can I stop them from doing so? > > I am using the following: > > Rpart, grDevices, graphics, stats, utils, methods, base > There is also an environment named 'Autoloads' > > TIA The datasets (note the ``s'') is a required R package which is *always* loaded automatically --- and in my experience instantaneously. I don't know about a dataset (singular) package. There does not appear to be one on CRAN. There is some confusion in what you are doing. cheers, Rolf Turner ###################################################################### Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid...{{dropped:13}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
