[R] Lazy loading... advices

Douglas Bates
Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:15:02 -0000

Philippe Grosjean wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for more information about lazy loading introduced in R 2.0.0.
> Doing
> ?lazyLoad
> I got some and there is a 'see also' section that points to
> 'makeLazyLoading'... But I cannot reach this page.
>
> My problem is: I recompiled a library that uses a lot of functions from
> other libraries (of course I can give details if needed). I load it in my
> computer: library(svGUI), and it takes something like 20 seconds to load.
In
> R 1.9.1 it took 3-4 seconds on the same machine (Windows XP). So, I try now
> to understand the mechanism and to find a way to lower the loading time of
> this library with lazy loading (its goal is to load faster, isn't, so I
> probably do something wrong).
>
> Any help or advice would be appreciated.
>

Have you read the article about lazyLoad mechanism that Brian Ripley
wrote for the latest R News issue?