[R] loading shared libraries at startup

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> writes:

> faheem ~>cat .Rprofile
> 
> print("reading .Rprofile")
> .First <- function()
> { 
> print(".First is being run")
> dyn.load("/home/faheem/research/cftp/cftpR.so")
> print(is.loaded(symbol.C("onestepupdateR")))
> }
> 
> but when I run R I just get
> 
> [1] "reading .Rprofile"
> [Previously saved workspace restored]
> 
> > 
> 
> Seems to be ignoring .First completely. It worked fine with previous
> versions of R (I used to use it to load libs). Can you suggest some
> debugging diagnostics? Is this perhaps due to some old .Rdata files
> floating around or something like that?

If there's *another* .First in your workspace, it would seem to
explain the behaviour. What is in .First after loading?

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