inst

Get the installation path of a package

Given the name of a package, this returns a path to the installed copy of the package, which can be passed to other devtools functions.

Usage

inst(name)

Details

It searches for the package in .libPaths(). If multiple dirs are found, it will return the first one.

Aliases

• inst

Examples

# NOT RUN {
inst("devtools")
inst("grid")
# }
# NOT RUN {
# Can be passed to other devtools functions
unload(inst("ggplot2"))
# }