On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Allan Engelhardt <all...@cybaea.com> wrote: > I only recently discovered options("available_packages_filters" = list(add = > TRUE, "license/FOSS")) [cf. help("available.packages", package="utils") in R > 2.10.0 or later] which goes nicely with my options("checkPackageLicense" = > TRUE) [new in R 2.11]. > > But now I want to purge my library of packages I would not have installed > had I known about this option earlier (I'm looking at you, "gam"!). > > Short of erasing the whole directory of libraries and re-installing it, is > there an easy way of achieving this? > > I could probably roll something based on tools:::analyze_license() but I > think the erase-and-reinstall option might be easier in this case :-) >
Try this: License <- installed.packages()[, "License"] View(License) and then just delete the ones you don't want or write a simple function which examines License and issues a remove.packages() for those that match or don't match whatever you want. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.