R help - Jan 2004 - Loading packages at startup

Hi,

I use the Windows R GUI.  I frequently use (or have my students use) foreign and
survival packages.  I would like to make them part of the basic start-up package
set (like base, ctest, etc.) using something short of recompiling a special
Windows version of R.  Is this possible?  I examined the autoload() command but
this seems to target a single command of package, and only apply during a single
run of R.  Is there an initiation text file I could modify?  I can find no
mention in the documentation of how this might be done.

Thanks,
Rob
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Take a look at ?Startup.  You can create a Rprofile file 
which loads these packages from the start.

-roger

imap wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use the Windows R GUI.  I frequently use (or have my students use)
foreign and survival packages.  I would like to make them part of the basic
start-up package set (like base, ctest, etc.) using something short of
recompiling a special Windows version of R.  Is this possible?  I examined the
autoload() command but this seems to target a single command of package, and
only apply during a single run of R.  Is there an initiation text file I could
modify?  I can find no mention in the documentation of how this might be done.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
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> 
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, imap wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use the Windows R GUI.  I frequently use (or have my students use)
> foreign and survival packages.  I would like to make them part of the
> basic start-up package set (like base, ctest, etc.) using something
> short of recompiling a special Windows version of R.  Is this possible?  
> I examined the autoload() command but this seems to target a single
> command of package, and only apply during a single run of R.  Is there
> an initiation text file I could modify?  I can find no mention in the
> documentation of how this might be done.
There certainly is.  You can use a site profile file, or you can set
R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES.  Both are described in ?Startup (a pretty obvious
place to look, surely).  For example, you might put in 
R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site

options(defaultPackages=c(getOption("defaultPackages"),
"foreign", "survival"))


Please sort out a proper user name for your mail ....

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I searched for `.First` to find it, but then, I knew what
to look for ... searching for `startup` would find it too.
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> Hi,
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> I use the Windows R GUI.  I frequently use (or have my 
> students use) foreign and survival packages.  I would like to 
> make them part of the basic start-up package set (like base, 
> ctest, etc.) using something short of recompiling a special 
> Windows version of R.  Is this possible?  I examined the 
> autoload() command but this seems to target a single command 
> of package, and only apply during a single run of R.  Is 
> there an initiation text file I could modify?  I can find no 
> mention in the documentation of how this might be done.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
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Hi,

go to your C:/R/rw1080/etc directory and edit the Rprofile file adding
(e.g.):

library(foreign)
library(survival)

cheers,

antonio rodriguez

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> Enviado el: martes, 20 de enero de 2004 16:16
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>
> Hi,
>
> I use the Windows R GUI.  I frequently use (or have my students
> use) foreign and survival packages.  I would like to make them
> part of the basic start-up package set (like base, ctest, etc.)
> using something short of recompiling a special Windows version of
> R.  Is this possible?  I examined the autoload() command but this
> seems to target a single command of package, and only apply
> during a single run of R.  Is there an initiation text file I
> could modify?  I can find no mention in the documentation of how
> this might be done.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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