[Rd] Size of (objects in) sysdata.rda

[Uwe Ligges]

Ulrike Grömping wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> in my package FrF2, I currently face a trade-off of object size and
> calculation run times. I would like to work with catalogues with some
> pre-calculated information, and calculate some other information on an
> as-needed basis. 
> 
> Is there any experience as to what sizes of objects in sysdata.rda will make
> a package difficult to handle / slow ? If I would put into the catalogues
> what I currently consider useful, I would most likely end up with an rda
> file that takes more than 30 seconds to load on my machine. With the current
> structure, it would consist almost exclusively of one massive list. I
> suspect that this is not very wise. Would it help to lazy-load data and
> split the list into several smaller ones (the larger ones of which will not
> be used all that often) ? 

Sounds good!

Uwe


> Or do I need a different strategy altogether ? 
> 
> Thanks for any advice!
> 
> Regards, Ulrike