[R] R-0.65.1 Startup

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Thomas Lumley wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 partha_bagchi at hgsi.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Dear R users,
> > > I have noticed that my R startup is extremely slow. It takes almost 3
> > > minutes  from "double-click" to R prompt. I have been running R-0.64.1 till
> > > recently and it took about 30 sec. I still have access to R-0.64.1. When I
> > > started it up, it took about 25 sec. Can anyone tell me if this is a bug in
> > > R or a problem with my machine?
> 
> > I have also noticed a slow startup under Win98 on a reasonably fast
> > machine. In fact, the startup is not unreasonably slow -- many large
> > programs take this long to start up. The problem is that there isn't much
> 
> 3 minutes? on an 600MHz PIII? What program is that?

Sorry, I misread the email -- I was thinking 30 seconds, which is how long
I have been experiencing.  In my case it might also have been due to an
oversized workspace.


	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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