[R] auto-loading package possible?

[Liaw, Andy]

Dear R-help,

Yes, I do know about the auto-loading feature.  My question is more
complicated than that:

Suppose I loaded a package (e.g., e1071) and created an object of certain
class (e.g., svm), for which there is a print method in the package to hide
things that the user may not need to see (e.g., large vectors or matrices
needed by methods such as predict).  If the next time I started R, I type
the object name without loading the package first, the whole shebang (sp?)
gets dumped on the screen, which is quite annoying.  

Is there any way to make R automagically search for availability of methods
for a particular class when objects of that class is accessed?  One
possibility is to auto-load the package if the appropriate method is found.
Another possibility is to notify the user that a package contains the
appropriate method and ask if it should be loaded.  Can such a thing be
done?

Regards,
Andy

Andy I. Liaw, PhD
Biometrics Research          Phone: (732) 594-0820
Merck & Co., Inc.              Fax: (732) 594-1565
P.O. Box 2000, RY84-16            Rahway, NJ 07065
mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com



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