On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Andrew Piskorski<a...@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 -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
