Packages and Libraries (was: Re: lme4 "package" etc
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Achim Zeileis wrote:
A *library* is a directory in which you can find R *packages* (just as
in real life you can find books in a library) and with
library("foo", lib.loc = "/path/to/bar")
you want to get the package (book) "foo" from the library "bar" located
at "/path/to/bar".
Out of pure curiosity, could anyone tell me the historical reason that library() is used here? Does it tie in to the S ancestry of R?