diff --git a/Doc/Manual/R.html b/Doc/Manual/R.html
index 367f7ab4d..7e878b782 100644
--- a/Doc/Manual/R.html
+++ b/Doc/Manual/R.html
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ R is a GPL'ed open source statistical and plotting environment.
 Information about R can be found at <a
 href="http://www.r-project.org/">www.r-project.org</a>.
 
-The R binding are under active development and are extremely
-experimental.  Not all features have been implemented and the API is
-not stable.
+The R bindings are under active development.  They have been used to
+compile and run an R interface to QuantLib running on Mandriva Linux
+with gcc, and testing on other platforms is appreciated.
 </p>
 
 <H2><a name="R_nn2"></a>32.1 Bugs</H2>
@@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ Currently the following features are not implemented or broken:
 
 <p>
 To use R and SWIG in C mode, execute the following commands where
-example_func.c is the name of the file with the functions in them
+example.c is the name of the file with the functions in them
 </p>
 
 <div class="shell">
 <pre>
-swig -r -o example,c example.i
-PKG_LIBS="example_func.c" R CMD SHLIB example.c
+swig -r example.i
+PKG_LIBS="example.c" R CMD SHLIB example_wrap.c
 </pre>
 </div>
 
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ The corresponding comments for C++ mode are
 
 <div class="shell">
 <pre>
-swig -c++ -r -o example.cpp example.i
-PKG_LIBS="example_func.cxx" R CMD SHLIB example.cpp
+swig -c++ -r example.i
+PKG_LIBS="example.cxx" R CMD SHLIB example_wrap.cpp
 </pre>
 </div>
 
@@ -79,22 +79,43 @@ rather than cxx for the R compile command to recognize it.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-The commands produce two files.  A dynamic shared object file called
-example.so and an R wrapper file called example_wrap.S.  To load these
+The commands produces two files.  A dynamic shared object file called
+example_wrap.so and an R wrapper file called example_wrap.R.  To load these
 files, start up R and type in the following commands
 </p>
 
 <div class="shell">
 <pre>
-dyn.load('example.so')
-source('example_wrap.S')
+dyn.load('example_wrap.so')
+source('example_wrap.R')
+cacheMetaData(1)
 </pre>
 </div>
 
+The cacheMetaData(1) will cause R to refresh its object tables.
+Without it, inheritance of wrapped objects may fail.
+
 <p>
 These two files can be loaded in any order
 </p>
 
+<H2>Precompiling large R files</H2>
+
+In cases where the R file is large, one make save a lot of loading
+time by precompiling the R wrapper.  This can be done by creating the
+file makeRData.R which contains the following
+
+<pre>
+source('BigFile_wrap.R')
+save(list=ls(all=TRUE),file="BigFile_wrap.RData", compress=TRUE)
+q(save="no")
+</pre>
+
+This will generate a compiled R file called BigFile_wrap.RData that
+will save a large amount of loading time.
+
+
+
 <H2><a name="R_nn4"></a>32.3 General policy</H2>