devtools (version 1.2)

reload: Unload and reload package.

Description

If the package is not loaded already, this does nothing.

Usage

reload(pkg = ".", quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

pkg

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

quiet

if TRUE suppresses output from this function.

Details

See the caveats in detach for the many reasons why this might not work. If in doubt, quit R and restart.

Examples

# Reload package that is in current directory
reload(".")

# Reload package that is in ./ggplot2/
reload("ggplot2/")

# Can use inst() to find the package path
# This will reload the installed ggplot2 package
reload(inst("ggplot2"))