From murdoch@stats.uwo.ca  Fri Oct 25 14:17:22 2002
From: murdoch@stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:17:22 -0400
Subject: RFC: Loading packages at startup
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:15:07 +0200, Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at wrote in
message <15800.61307.451828.338523@mithrandir.hornik.net>:

>  But in any
>case, dumping an object that somehow represents the session state would
>be extremely important---but I do think we need an R object to represent
>the information.

It might be possible at some point to store something that would cause
R to fail to start, so if a binary format is used for this file, there
should be tools provided to allow it to be edited.  This could be as
simple as instructions for running "R --vanilla", loading and editing
the startup info, and saving it back.  

Duncan Murdoch
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RFC: Loading packages at startup
Duncan Murdoch