[R] how to undo automatic loading of packages?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, davidr at rhotrading.com wrote:

> I wanted to try out package distrMod, so I did
>
>> install.packages('distrMod')
>> library(distrMod)
>
> and played around, saved and quit.
>
> Now whenever I start up in this directory, I get distr and lots of other
> stuff loaded and lots of messages.
>
> How do I keep it from automatically loading, other than starting over in
> another directory?
> I read ?Startup, but I couldn't suss out where the autoloading was
> occurring.
> It probably has something to do with the "Autoloads" that shows up in my
> search list, but
> I don't know how to get it out.
> If I start up in another directory, this behavior is avoided, so I don't
> think it's in
> any site files. In this session's R.home(), I have
> $ cat .Rprofile
> options(stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
> so it's not in there.
>
>> search()
> [1] ".GlobalEnv"                 "package:grDevices"
> "package:datasets"           "package:RandVar"
> [5] "package:distrEx"            "package:actuar"
> "package:evd"                "package:distr"
> [9] "package:SweaveListingUtils" "package:sfsmisc"
> "package:utils"              "package:stats"
> [13] "package:startupmsg"         "package:graphics"
> "package:methods"            "Autoloads"
> [17] "package:base"
>
>> options("defaultPackages")
> $defaultPackages
> [1] "datasets"  "utils"     "grDevices" "graphics"  "stats"
> "methods"
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] grDevices datasets  utils     stats     graphics  methods   base
>
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] RandVar_0.6.7          distrEx_2.1            actuar_1.0-2
> evd_2.2-4              distr_2.1.1
> [6] SweaveListingUtils_0.2 sfsmisc_1.0-7          startupmsg_0.6
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] distrMod_2.1 MASS_7.2-46  stats4_2.9.0
>
> Thanks for any help on this,
> David L. Reiner
>
>
>
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