devtools (version 1.1)

unload: Unload a package

Description

This function attempts to cleanly unload a package, including unloading its namespace, deleting S4 class definitions and unloading any loaded DLLs. Unfortunately S4 classes are not really designed to be cleanly unloaded, and so we have to manually modify the class dependency graph in order for it to work - this works on the cases for which we have tested but there may be others. Similarly, automated DLL unloading is best tested for simple scenarios (particularly with useDynLib(pkgname) and may fail in other cases. If you do encounter a failure, please file a bug report at http://github.com/hadley/devtools/issues.

Usage

unload(pkg = ".")

Arguments

pkg

package description, can be path or package name. See as.package for more information

Examples

# Unload package that is in current directory
unload(".")

# Unload package that is in ./ggplot2/
unload("ggplot2/")

# Can use inst() to find the path of an installed package
# This will load and unload the installed ggplot2 package
library(ggplot2)
unload(inst("ggplot2"))