The R-devel version of R now uses lazy loading, in which objects in a package are initially stored in a database and replaced by a promise. This makes R much faster to start up (40% of the previous time) and it will (usually) use a smaller footprint.
Given the loss of the CVS archive whilst I was away the merging has had to be done manually and so a lot of checking of a CVS branch has been lost. You will almost certainly need to do make clean if updating an existing build. Packages can be installed to use lazy loading by INSTALL --lazy. This is not yet the default, but it will become so in due course, so please test your package(s) with lazy loading before submission to CRAN. -- 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 https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
