[R] Automatic detachment of dependent packages

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 7 16:39:35 CEST 2007


Dear All,

When one loads certain packages, some other dependent packages are
loaded as well. Is there some way of detaching them automatically when
one detaches the first package loaded? For instance,

> library(sqldf)
Loading required package: RSQLite
Loading required package: DBI
Loading required package: gsubfn
Loading required package: proto

but

> detach(package:sqldf)
>
> search()
 [1] ".GlobalEnv"        "package:gsubfn"    "package:proto"
 [4] "package:RSQLite"   "package:DBI"       "package:stats"
 [7] "package:graphics"  "package:grDevices" "package:utils"
[10] "package:datasets"  "package:methods"   "Autoloads"
[13] "package:base"

The packages

RSQLite
DBI
gsubfn
proto

were not detached.

Thanks in advance,

Paul



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