From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Wed Oct 29 19:05:23 1997
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:05:23 -0800 (PST)
Subject: R-alpha: Using autoload and smaller 'base' package [was "Re: New Version"].
In-Reply-To: <97Oct29.125401est.26507@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.971029110137.7363D-100000@troi>


One disadvantage, probably fixable, of autoload over loading in Rprofile
that I forgot to mention is that the help for a package isn't available
until it's loaded.

So

	library(eda)
	help(smooth)
works, but
	autoload("smooth","eda")
	help(smooth)
doesn't.

If this is a big problem it should be possible to modify help().

	-thomas

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R-alpha: Using autoload and smaller 'base' package [was "Re: New Version"].
Thomas Lumley