[R] vanilla session in R Gui or RStudio

Fri Oct 23 04:54:10 CEST 2020

Can you be more specific about what conditions cause R to automatically load a package when a .RData file is loaded? My experience has actually been the opposite.

On October 22, 2020 6:13:11 PM PDT, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson using gmail.com> wrote:
>As Jeff says, it might be that you have a ~/.Rprofile file with
>instructions to load packages when R starts.  It could also be that
>you have a .RData file, which is saved if you answer yes to:
>
>> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y
>
>when you quit R.   If this file exists, then R loads it and all the
>objects you had when you saved it. If there are objects associated
>with packages, then that will cause those packages to be loaded when R
>starts.  To avoid this, you need to move or delete the .RData file.
>
>You can use:
>
>> startup::startup(debug = TRUE, dryrun = TRUE)
>
>to get detailed information on what happens when R starts, e.g. if you
>have a .Rprofile file and an .RData file.  That might help you to
>track down what's going on.  The 'startup' package is on CRAN.
>
>I don't know of an easy way to restart RGui or RStudio Console in
>vanilla mode, similarly how you can start R at the terminal with 'R
>--vanilla'.
>
>/Henrik
>
>On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 4:14 PM Jeff Newmiller
><jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>>
>> Have you looked into your .Rprofile file? Loading packages is not
>something R normally does without your telling it to do so, but many
>people forget that they have done so.
>>
>> On October 22, 2020 3:47:04 PM PDT, Michael L Friendly
><friendly using yorku.ca> wrote:
>> >[env: Windows, R 3.6.6]
>> >
>> >When I start R from the R Gui icon or from RStudio, I get a large
>> >number of packages loaded via a namespace. Not entirely clear where
>> >these come from.
>> >
>> >As a result, I often run into problems updating packages because
>> >something is already loaded.  How can start a new gui session with
>> >minimal packages loaded?
>> >
>> >> sessionInfo()
>> >R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
>> >Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>> >Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>> >
>> >Matrix products: default
>> >
>> >locale:
>> >[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> >States.1252
>> >[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> >
>> >[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>> >
>> >attached base packages:
>> >[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> >
>> >
>> >loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> >[1] statmod_1.4.34   xfun_0.18        tidyselect_1.1.0
>reshape2_1.4.4
>> >purrr_0.3.4      mitools_2.4
>> >[7] splines_3.6.3    lattice_0.20-41  coefplot_1.2.6   carData_3.0-4
>> >colorspace_1.4-1 vctrs_0.3.4
>> >[13] generics_0.0.2   htmltools_0.5.0  yaml_2.2.1      
>survival_3.2-7
>> > rlang_0.4.7      pillar_1.4.6
>> >[19] nloptr_1.2.2.2   glue_1.4.2       DBI_1.1.0       
>lifecycle_0.2.0
>> > plyr_1.8.6       stringr_1.4.0
>> >[25] effects_4.2-0    munsell_0.5.0    gtable_0.3.0    
>evaluate_0.14
>> > knitr_1.30       fansi_0.4.1
>> >[31] Rcpp_1.0.5       scales_1.1.1     useful_1.2.6     fs_1.4.2
>> > lme4_1.1-23      packrat_0.5.0
>> >[37] ggplot2_3.3.2    digest_0.6.25    stringi_1.4.6   
>insight_0.9.6
>> > dplyr_1.0.2      survey_4.0
>> >[43] grid_3.6.3       cli_2.1.0        tools_3.6.3      magrittr_1.5
>> > tibble_3.0.4     crayon_1.3.4
>> >[49] pkgconfig_2.0.3  ellipsis_0.3.1   MASS_7.3-53     
>Matrix_1.2-18
>> > reprex_0.3.0     assertthat_0.2.1
>> >[55] minqa_1.2.4      rmarkdown_2.4    rstudioapi_0.11  R6_2.4.1
>> > boot_1.3-25      nnet_7.3-14
>> >[61] nlme_3.1-149     compiler_3.6.3
>> >>
>> >
>> >Michael Friendly     Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca
>> >Professor, Psychology Dept. & Former Chair, ASA Statistical Graphics
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