Are there performance problems with having package library on a network drive?

[mfherman]

Thanks @jdlong! I think I found the thread you were referring to:

RStudio Desktop slow and laggy when project is on a network drive

Disabling [x] Prompt to install missing R packages discovered in R source files doesn't seem to do a whole lot here. But WOW .rs.listInstalledPackages() is slow. Yes, my R packages live on a network drive, and I think this is 95% of the issue with everything to do with the laggy Console. Running: # with network drive .libPaths() .rs.listInstalledPackages() .libPaths("local/R/package/lib") .rs.listInstalledPackages() This is night and day. In fact, I can barely even get the network drive version of .rs.listInstalledPackages() to run because it takes so long. Immediately after switching .libPaths(), it runs almost instantaneously. Sadly I really like the network drive pkg setup because …

And as @davis indicated, when I run .rs.listInstalledPackages() with my network library, I get a lot of lag. So, I think I'll see about getting IT to let me install my packages locally. I'm hoping to use git with some of my work too, so we'll see how that goes on the NFS.