[R] auto-loading package possible?

[Liaw, Andy]

Apparently I only had faint impression of what autoload does.  What Thomas
described will do what I want, even though it's not as automatic as one
would hope.  In my case I know most of the methods and the packages they're
in, so doing it this way is not a problem at all.

Thanks to all who responded!!

Cheers,
Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Lumley [mailto:tlumley at u.washington.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:05 AM
> To: Liaw, Andy
> Cc: 'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
> Subject: Re: [R] auto-loading package possible?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> 
> > Dear R-help,
> >
> > Yes, I do know about the auto-loading feature.  My question is more
> > complicated than that:
> >
> 
> You can use the autoloading feature for this (at least for 
> packages using
> old classes) if all you need is print methods.
> 
> It's fairly straightforward to get a list of all the 
> print.foo functions
> in all the installed packages. For example, load the package, 
> use ls() to
> get the object names, and grep for names beginning "print.". 
> Use this to
> create a file of autoload() statements like
>  	autoload("print.Surv","survival")
> 	autoload("print.coxph","survival")
> 	autoload("print.nlme","nlme")
> and so on, and read this from your .Rprofile.
> 
> As long as the names are unique this will do what you are 
> asking (and if
> they're not unique then it's pretty much impossible). It does 
> need to be
> updated when you install new packages.
> 
> Doing this in general is much harder, as has been pointed out.
> 
> 	-thomas
> 
> 
> 

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