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inst

Get the installation path of a package

Description

Given the name of a package, this returns a path to the installed copy of the package, which can be passed to other devtools functions.

Usage

inst(name)

Arguments

name

the name of a package.

Details

It searches for the package in .libPaths(). If multiple dirs are found, it will return the first one.

Examples

inst("pkgload")
inst("grid")

pkgload

Simulate Package Installation and Attach

v1.2.1

GPL-3

Authors

Hadley Wickham [aut], Jim Hester [aut, cre], Winston Chang [aut], RStudio [cph], R Core team [ctb] (Some namespace and vignette code extracted from base R)

Initial release