uninstall.packages: uninstalls (removes) Installed Packages

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uninstalls (removes) Installed Packages

Description

A wrapper for remove.packages. Useful since it also works if the package is currently loaded into the workspace.

Usage

uninstall.packages(pkgs, lib, warning = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

pkgs	a character vector with the names of the packages to be removed.
lib	a character vector giving the library directories to remove the packages from. If missing, defaults to the first element in .libPaths.
warning	boolean (TRUE), should a message be printed in various cases.
...	currently ignored.

Value

Invisible NULL

See Also

install.packages, remove.packages, install.packages.zip

Examples

## Not run: 
install.packages(c("reshape", "plyr"))
require(plyr)
uninstall.packages(c("reshape", "plyr"))
install.packages(c("reshape", "plyr"))

## End(Not run)

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