From Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Fri Apr 28 18:17:54 2000
From: Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 19:17:54 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] options(keep.source = TRUE) -- also for "library(.)" ?
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>>>>> Martin Maechler writes:

> I'm replying to myself once more : [and this gets more and more
> envolved, please "d" if you're not interested ..]

> ...

> After all this testing, I think what we really want is "keep.source =
> FALSE" (including for "base" !)  WHEN working with large data, working
> on smallish machines, or for all "batch" processing.

> Hence I'd propose

> 1.  
>   options(keep.source = interactive())

>   in the default profile

> 2. {as proposed earlier today -- see below}

>   provide a command line option to turn it on or off.

I am not sure whether we really want a command line option.  I'd say we
should keep things as simple as possible.

-k

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[Rd] options(keep.source = TRUE) -- also for "library(.)" ?
Kurt Hornik