[R] what's the command in R to completely clear the state of the console(including clearing up libraries, etc?)

Hadley Wickham hadley at rice.edu
Sun Jan 1 19:55:24 CET 2012


>> My understanding is that one only clears the variables... not
>> functions/packages, etc...
>
> Not exactly true. rm should remove any function you defined in your current
> session. You need to look at
>
> ?unloadNamespace
> ?detach
>
> ...  in order to remove loaded packages.

And read the caveats there.  It's basically not possible to reset your
R session to a completely clean slate.  You're best off just starting
a new one.

Hadley

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