[Rd] Load a package without installing it

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 16:25:25 CEST 2009


This is sufficiently useful that it would be nice to have it
as part of R itself.  For the moment, perhaps you could
make a package of it on CRAN or contribute it to some
other existing CRAN package.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Hadley Wickham<hadley at rice.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When developing a package, it's often useful to be able to reload it,
> without re-installing, re-starting R and re-loading.  To do this I've
> written a little script that inspects the package description and
> loads dependencies, data and code - http://gist.github.com/180883.
> It's obviously not very general (being tailored to my description
> files) and won't work for packages containing C code, but I hope you
> might find it useful nonetheless.
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
>
> Hadley
>
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