[R] detach and install package

[Uwe Ligges]

Roslina Zakaria wrote:
> Hi R-users,
> 
> I would like to detach and installed the fBasics package but it gives me this message:
> 
>>      detach("package:fBasics",unload=TRUE)
> Error in detach("package:fBasics", unload = TRUE) : invalid name
> 
>>      install.packages(repos=NULL,pkgs="c:\\Tinn-R\\fBasics_2100.77.zip")
> package 'fBasics' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package 'fBasics'
> updating HTML package descriptions
> 
> I did tried to remove all the fBasics file from my directory.  What should I do?

In principle it should work the way you indicated.
Anyway, if the namepsace is used by another package or so, it may be 
locked. What you always can do:
Close R and restart it without loading/attaching/importing fBasics. Then 
you should always be able to install.packages() it.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



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