find.package(package, lib.loc = NULL, quiet = FALSE,
verbose = getOption("verbose"))path.package(package, quiet = FALSE)
NULL. The default value
of NULL corresponds to checking the loaded namespace, then
all libraries currently known in .libPaths().TRUE, additional diagnostics are
printed.find.package returns path to the locations where the
given packages are found. If lib.loc is NULL, then
loaded namespaces are searched before the libraries. If a package is
found more than once, the first match is used. Unless quiet =
TRUE a warning will be given about the named packages which are not
found, and an error if none are. If verbose is true, warnings
about packages found more than once are given. For a package to be
returned it must contain a either a Meta subdirectory or a
DESCRIPTION file containing a valid version field, but
it need not be installed (it could be a source package if
lib.loc was set suitably). find.package is not usually the right tool to find out if a
package is available for use: the only way to do that is to use
require to try to load it. It need not be installed for
the correct platform, it might have a version requirement not met by
the running version of R, there might be dependencies which are not
available, …. path.package returns the paths from which the named packages
were loaded, or if none were named, for all currently attached packages.
Unless quiet = TRUE it will warn if some of the packages named
are not attached, and given an error if none are.path.expand and normalizePath for path
standardization.