Hi, I am looking for an elegant solution to the following problem. When I load a package, let's say ROracle, I want some custom actions to be done on top of what package's .First.lib does. In this specific example I want to open a connection to the only database I have around. And I don't see how this could be done: there seems to be no hooks in a couple of .First.lib functions I checked out, and there is no on.library.load() function to register a call-back too. It's just a nice to have, but I am curious to hear what people might suggest. Thanks, Vadim [[alternative HTML version deleted]]