[R] rw1.7.0 spend much time to open

[Prof Brian Ripley]

No: a couple of seconds on a fast machine is normal.

See the top of the CHANGES file for things you can do to speed it up.

Most likely there is a problem with your system though: are
you loading from a networked drive?

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, [Windows-1252] Eusebio Arenal Gutiérrez wrote:

> I've just installed R for windows 1.7.0 on windows 2000 SP2 from the
> binaries on CRAN. It takes at least 1:30 minutes to completely open Rgui,
> Rterm o R in Emacs. It this normal?
> 
> Data about the platform:
> 
> C:\>ver
> 
> Microsoft Windows 2000 [Versión 5.00.2195]
> 
> > Sys.info()
>                       sysname                       release
>                     "Windows"                      "NT 5.0"
>                       version                      nodename
> "(build 2195) Service Pack 2"                     "xxxxxxx"
>                       machine                         login
>                         "x86"                         "xxx"
>                          user
>                         "xxx"

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