unlibrary: Unload a package

In lsr: Companion to "Learning Statistics with R"

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.

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.

Value

Identical to detach.

See Also

library, require, detach

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