On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Thomas Lumley wrote: > I can't remember the historical reason why utils isn't loaded in binary > form in 1.9.1. In r-devel they are all loaded from binary databases when > used.
It's size. The R code for utils is relatively small (relative to stats and graphics, or lattice and nlme) and so using a saved image was only a little faster. For r-devel the tradeoff is more biased in favour of binary loading, but for example package splines is still stored as text. -- 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-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
