R help - Apr 2008 - mysterious (to me) automatic loading of packages when R starts up

Hello,
I have recently noticed that in one of my work areas, a number of packages
are automatically loaded without my explicitly requesting them to be loaded
(see below). This only happens in one particular workspace (located in a
folder). I suspect (without any real evidence) that this may be related to
my creating plots using the ggplot2 package earlier in this workspace.

I am running R 2.7.0 under Vista but I noticed the same behavior under R
2.6.2 last week.

Can someone please tell me why this is happening and how I can prevent this
automatic package loading in this workspace?

Thanks,
Duncan

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Loading required package: proto
Loading required package: grid
Loading required package: reshape
[Previously saved workspace restored]
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Duncan Mackay <duncan.mackay <at> flinders.edu.au> writes:
> I have recently noticed that in one of my work areas, a number of packages
> are automatically loaded without my explicitly requesting them to be loaded
> (see below). This only happens in one particular workspace (located in a
> folder). I suspect (without any real evidence) that this may be related to
> my creating plots using the ggplot2 package earlier in this workspace.
> 
> 
> Loading required package: proto
> Loading required package: grid
> Loading required package: reshape
> [Previously saved workspace restored]
Whenever you see the last line, there is an .Rdata-file in you startup
directory. Delete it, and use

rgui.exe --no-restore --no-save 

to start R (assuming Windows) to avoid the automatic loading/saving (which I
find confusing).

Dieter