Load a package without installing it
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Andrew Piskorski<atp at piskorski.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:39:12AM -0500, Hadley Wickham wrote:
When developing a package, it's often useful to be able to reload it, without re-installing, re-starting R and re-loading.
Why would you ever need to restart R in such a situation?
Two comments: * running install is slower than just sourcing all the code * detach specifically warns against the use you make of it: "So detaching and re-attaching a package may not refresh some or all components of the package, and is inadvisable." But if it works for you, great!
I'm not sure whether the detach() will play nicely with package dependencies, as I've found them annoying in other circumstances and so tend to never use package dependencies in my code.
This seems a bit extreme! Hadley