It's possible to run R (or a c parent process) as a background process via a named pipe, and then write script files to the named pipe. However, the details depend on what shell you use.
The last time I tried (which was a long time ago), I created a small c program to run R, read from the named pipe from within c, then wrote it's contents to R's standard in. It might be possible to do it without the c program. Haven't checked. On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 3:50 AM Mario Annau <mario.an...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > in our current setting we have our packages stored on a (rather slow) > network drive and need to invoke short R scripts (using RScript) in a > timely manner. Most of the script's runtime is spent with package loading > using library() (or loadNamespace to be precise). > > Is there a way to cache the package namespaces as listed in > loadedNamespaces() and load them into memory before the script is executed? > > My first simplistic attempt was to serialize the environment output > from loadNamespace() to a file and load it before the script is started. > However, loading the object automatically also loads all the referenced > namespaces (from the slow network share) which is undesirable for this use > case. > > Cheers, > Mario > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
