[R] A housekeeping question...

[Uwe Ligges]

Brian Lunergan wrote:
> Evening all:
> 
> Stepping away from the stats methodology questions for a moment, I have 
> a housekeeping question for when it comes time to make the jump to v2.7.2.
> 
> I'm running v2.7.1 on an XP system. I have a suspicion that, by way of 
> experimentation with a couple of shell choices along the way, I've left 
> myself with a couple of unused stowaway libraries that I see no need to 
> bring along to the next installation party.
> 
> Is there a command or function or utility of some persuasion that would 
> allow me to ferret out these non-dependent freeloaders?
> 
> No need to go into detail. Just a pointer in the right direction would 
> be much appreciated and I'll go quietly off and search on my own.
> 
> Regards...


R cannot know which packages have been used since it does not write log 
files which packages you are using. Hence the answer is no.

If I misunderstood and the question is how to remove packages (rather 
than libraries), then just see ?remove.packages for details.

Uwe Ligges