makeLazyLoading            package:tools            R Documentation

Lazy Loading of Packages

Description:

     Tools for lazy loading of packages from a database.

Usage:

     makeLazyLoading(package, lib.loc = NULL, compress = TRUE,
                     keep.source = getOption("keep.source.pkgs"))

Arguments:

 package: package name string

 lib.loc: library trees, as in 'library'

keep.source: logical; should sources be kept when saving from source

compress: logical; whether to compress entries on the database.

Details:

     A tool to set up packages for lazy loading from a database.  For
     packages other than 'base' you can use 'makeLazyLoading(package)'
     to convert them to use lazy loading.

Author(s):

     Luke Tierney and Brian Ripley

Examples:

     ## set up package "splines" for lazy loading -- already done
     ## Not run: 
     tools:::makeLazyLoading("splines")
     ## End(Not run)

