On 19 April 2016 at 11:21, Hadley Wickham wrote: | This might be too big a change - but is it worth reconsidering the | behaviour of Rscript? Maybe the simplest fix would be simply to always | load the methods package. (I think historically it didn't because | loading methods took a long time, but that is no longer true)
FWIW littler has always loaded package 'methods' at startup (because I found this Rscript 'feature' to be too insufferable) -- and of course still starts in about half the time as Rscript. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel