R help - Apr 2004 - Very slow start of R under MacOS X

Hi,

Since R 1.4.1 I am using R for various purposes on my Mac (OS9 and 
OSX10.3) and I am quite happy with it. However, recently I tried to 
update the binaries to 1.7.1 or 1.8, only to find that I have to wait 
for a painfully long time after doublecklicking R to start the 
application until I can type my first command.

Does anybody know, why versions 1.7. and above are so much slower 
than my old 1.4?
Is that only on my Mac or does everybody experience that?
Is there anything that I could do to speedup starting R?

Thanks for any help.
Laurence
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On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Laurence Loewe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since R 1.4.1 I am using R for various purposes on my Mac (OS9 and
> OSX10.3) and I am quite happy with it. However, recently I tried to
> update the binaries to 1.7.1 or 1.8, only to find that I have to wait
> for a painfully long time after doublecklicking R to start the
> application until I can type my first command.
>
> Does anybody know, why versions 1.7. and above are so much slower
> than my old 1.4?
> Is that only on my Mac or does everybody experience that?
> Is there anything that I could do to speedup starting R?

You will be pleased to know that 1.9.0 is quite a bit faster (about 5sec
startup on my G4 laptop).

	-thomas