No: a couple of seconds on a fast machine is normal.
See the top of the CHANGES file for things you can do to speed it up.
Most likely there is a problem with your system though: are
you loading from a networked drive?
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, [Windows-1252] Eusebio Arenal Guti?rrez wrote:
> I've just installed R for windows 1.7.0 on windows 2000 SP2 from the
> binaries on CRAN. It takes at least 1:30 minutes to completely open Rgui,
> Rterm o R in Emacs. It this normal?
>
> Data about the platform:
>
> C:\>ver
>
> Microsoft Windows 2000 [Versi?n 5.00.2195]
>
> > Sys.info()
> sysname release
> "Windows" "NT
5.0"
> version nodename
> "(build 2195) Service Pack 2"
"xxxxxxx"
> machine login
> "x86"
"xxx"
> user
> "xxx"
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