You likely want the answer that Sarah has already given but in addition you might also want to look at the thread below, the point being that detaching a package still leaves portions:
https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-July/109056.html On 8/25/06, Sarah Goslee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > There are two ways that I know of: > detach("package:zoo") > or use detach() with the number of that package's > place in the search list. > > > library(zoo) > > search() > [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:zoo" "package:methods" > [4] "package:graphics" "package:grDevices" "package:utils" > [7] "package:datasets" "package:ecoutils" "package:ecodist" > [10] "package:stats" "package:gtkDevice" "Autoloads" > [13] "package:base" > > detach("package:zoo") > > search() > [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:methods" "package:graphics" > [4] "package:grDevices" "package:utils" "package:datasets" > [7] "package:ecoutils" "package:ecodist" "package:stats" > [10] "package:gtkDevice" "Autoloads" "package:base" > > OR > > > library(zoo) > > search() > [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:zoo" "package:methods" > [4] "package:graphics" "package:grDevices" "package:utils" > [7] "package:datasets" "package:ecoutils" "package:ecodist" > [10] "package:stats" "package:gtkDevice" "Autoloads" > [13] "package:base" > > detach(2) > > search() > [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:methods" "package:graphics" > [4] "package:grDevices" "package:utils" "package:datasets" > [7] "package:ecoutils" "package:ecodist" "package:stats" > [10] "package:gtkDevice" "Autoloads" "package:base" > > Sarah ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
