On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Horace Tso wrote: > Dear list, > > I know it must be obvious and I did my homework. (In fact I've > RSiteSearched with keyword "remove AND library" but got timed > out.(why?)....)
Probably because the site is offline. > How do I unload a library? I don't mean getting ride of it permanently > but just to unload it for the time being. Do you mean 'package' (see detach and unLoadNamespace) or 'library' (see dyn.unload and library.dynam.unload)? > A related problem : I have some libraries loaded at startup in .First() > which I have in .Rprofile. Now, I exited R and commented out the lines > in .First(). Next time I launch R the same libraries are loaded again. > I.e. there seems to be a memory of the old .First() somewhere which > refuses to die. Are you restoring a workspace containing .First? Always try with --vanilla to check. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
