[Rd] require vs library
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Sun Feb 23 13:53:02 2003
On 23 Feb 2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> "kjetil brinchmann halvorsen" <kjetil@entelnet.bo> writes:
>
> > mva and grid has been loaded without any warning. Everybody knows
> > lattice requires grid, but why mva?
>
> As far as I recall it is for the dist() function, which gets used in
> some spatial/longitudinal models.
More precisely, it autoloads dist from mva, so you get mva if and only
if you use a function that uses it, and it seems that is corSpatial.
lattice autoloads loess and loess.smooth from modreg.
I don't like autoloads for this reason: they change the search path
without warning. Hopefully by 1.8.0 we will have better mechanisms
(import from namespaces, on-demand loading of objects from databases
which allows all the base and recommended packages to be attached with
negligible penalty).
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