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lsr (version 0.5.2)

unlibrary: Unload a package

Description

A wrapper function to detach that removes a package from the search path, but takes a package name as input similar to library.

Usage

unlibrary(package)

Arguments

package

A package name, which may be specified with or without quotes.

Value

Identical to detach.

Details

Unloads a package. This is just a wrapper for the detach function. However, the package argument is just the name of the package (rather than the longer string that is required by the detach function), and -- like the library function -- can be specified without quote marks. The unlibrary function does not unload dependencies, only the named package.

The name "unlibrary" is a bit of an abuse of both R terminology (in which one has a library of packages) and the English language, but I think it helps convey that the goal of the unlibrary function is to do the opposite of what the library function does.

See Also

library, require, detach