[R] slow start-up

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Stefano wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm working with R 1.2.2 on win98 (256Mb RAM) with ESS 5.1.18.
> It happens that the start-up is very slow. I don't know exactly how to measure, but with a simple watch I recorded 15 seconds, while the startup of S+ 2000 (Sqpe+4 under ESS) takes around 3 seconds.

How fast is starting Rterm in a terminal window?  It takes around a second
on my 366MHz machine. If that is fast, it is an ESS problem, better sent
to the ESS list (and possibly better sent there anyway: see the rw-FAQ).

Do you have an existing .RData?  That can take a long time to read,
if large and complex objects are in it. Try timing Rterm --vanilla.

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