I have two packages, one that does the actual work (SC) and the other a Tcl/Tk UI (SCUI) that invokes methods within the former. Within the SCUI's invocation method, I save an object returned from SC, the results of a long-running method.
Now the object is completely described by the SC package. Unfortunately, any attempt to load the object (in a fresh R session) fails as below. R> library(SC) R> setwd("/path/to/results/") R> load("sc-results.rda") Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done Error: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'SCUI', details: call: optiondb_add("*Notebook.borderWidth", 2, "widgetDefault") error: could not find function "tcl" That call (which adds resource to Tcl resource database) is made inside SCUI. Loading tcltk package removes the problem. R> library(tcltk) R> load("sc-results.rda") R> ls() [1] "results" But I would really prefer not to need to load tcltk at all just to inspect/use the object, which contains nothing from SCUI anyway. Is there a way to strip the unwanted UI prerequisite (tcltk and SCUI) packages from the environment of the object prior/during save()? R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-06-03 r52201) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel