R help - Mar 2003 - To load Add-ons

Dear R Help-Team,

If I start R and type in
search()

the result is:
[1] ".GlobalEnv"    "package:ctest" "Autoloads"   
"package:base"

I often need an Add-on-package. I can load it with ">
library(package)" or
include a require-command in the .First-function. The .First-function is
fine, if I always use the same working directory. But I don't. And I'm
not
the only one, who needs some Add-ons almost every time.
Is it possible to change the .First-function global? Or is there a
possibility to load a package by default for all users and independent from
the working directory, like "package:ctest" and
"package:base"?

With kind regards
Katrin Braesel

Use the .Rprofile file for such things.

for example my file .Rprofile contains :


library(geoR)
library(geoRglm)
if(!exists(".Random.seed")) set.seed(1367)



-- 
Ole F. Christensen
BiRC
Datalogisk Institut
Aarhus Universitet
Ny Munkegade, Bygning 540 
8000 Aarhus C 
Denmark

Look at ?Startup.  You might want to edit $R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site, where
$R_HOME is the sitewide installation directory.

-roger
_______________________________
UCLA Department of Statistics
rpeng at stat.ucla.edu
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~rpeng

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Katrin Braesel wrote:
> Dear R Help-Team,
> 
> If I start R and type in
> search()
> 
> the result is:
> [1] ".GlobalEnv"    "package:ctest"
"Autoloads"     "package:base"
> 
> I often need an Add-on-package. I can load it with ">
library(package)" or
> include a require-command in the .First-function. The .First-function is
> fine, if I always use the same working directory. But I don't. And
I'm not
> the only one, who needs some Add-ons almost every time.
> Is it possible to change the .First-function global? Or is there a
> possibility to load a package by default for all users and independent from
> the working directory, like "package:ctest" and
"package:base"?
> 
> With kind regards
> Katrin Braesel
> 
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