On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, James MacDonald wrote:
> If one wants to unload compiled code for a package containing a
> namespace, my understanding is that .onUnload() should be used, with a
> call to library.dynam.unload(). This is used in e.g., the stats and
> methods packages, but it appears to me that the compiled code is not
> being unloaded when the package is detached(). Am I misunderstanding
> something?
No. It is still needed whilst the namespace is loaded. .onUnload is not
run by detach(), but by unloadNamespace
>
> Best,
>
> Jim
>
>> search()
> [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:methods" "package:stats"
> "package:graphics"
> [5] "package:grDevices" "package:utils" "package:datasets" "Autoloads"
> [9] "package:base"
>
>> stats:::.onUnload
> function (libpath)
> library.dynam.unload("stats", libpath)
> <environment: namespace:stats>
>
>> getLoadedDLLs()
> Filename Dynamic.Lookup
> base base FALSE
> iconv C:/rw2030dev/modules/iconv.dll TRUE
> grDevices C:/rw2030dev/library/grDevices/libs/grDevices.dll FALSE
> stats C:/rw2030dev/library/stats/libs/stats.dll FALSE
> methods C:/rw2030dev/library/methods/libs/methods.dll FALSE
>
>> detach(3)
>
>> search()
> [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:methods" "package:graphics"
> "package:grDevices"
> [5] "package:utils" "package:datasets" "Autoloads" "package:base"
>
>> getLoadedDLLs()
> Filename Dynamic.Lookup
> base base FALSE
> iconv C:/rw2030dev/modules/iconv.dll TRUE
> grDevices C:/rw2030dev/library/grDevices/libs/grDevices.dll FALSE
> stats C:/rw2030dev/library/stats/libs/stats.dll FALSE
> methods C:/rw2030dev/library/methods/libs/methods.dll FALSE
>
>> R.version
> _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch i386
> os mingw32
> system i386, mingw32
> status Under development (unstable)
> major 2
> minor 3.0
> year 2006
> month 01
> day 01
> svn rev 36947
> language R
> version.string Version 2.3.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-01-01 r36947)
>
>
> James W. MacDonald
> Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
> University of Michigan Cancer Center
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>
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