On 23 Feb 2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: > "kjetil brinchmann halvorsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > mva and grid has been loaded without any warning. Everybody knows > > lattice requires grid, but why mva? > > As far as I recall it is for the dist() function, which gets used in > some spatial/longitudinal models.
More precisely, it autoloads dist from mva, so you get mva if and only if you use a function that uses it, and it seems that is corSpatial. lattice autoloads loess and loess.smooth from modreg. I don't like autoloads for this reason: they change the search path without warning. Hopefully by 1.8.0 we will have better mechanisms (import from namespaces, on-demand loading of objects from databases which allows all the base and recommended packages to be attached with negligible penalty). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
