[R] Automatic detachment of dependent packages

[Gabor Grothendieck]

If its good enough just to get rid of all attached packages since after startup
you could just do repeated detaches like this making use of the fact that
search() has 9 components on startup:

replicate(length(search()) - 9, detach())


On 9/7/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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