detach all packages while working in R

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So, someone should have simply answered the following.

lapply(paste('package:',names(sessionInfo()$otherPkgs),sep=""),detach,character.only=TRUE,unload=TRUE)

(edit: 6-28-19)
In the latest version of R 3.6.0 please use instead.

invisible(lapply(paste0('package:', names(sessionInfo()$otherPkgs)), detach, character.only=TRUE, unload=TRUE))

Note the use of invisible(*) is not necessary but can be useful to prevent the NULL reply from vertically spamming the R window.

(edit: 9/20/2019) In version 3.6.1

It may be helpful to convert loaded only names(sessionInfo()$loadedOnly) to explicitly attached packages first, and then detach the packages, as so.

lapply(names(sessionInfo()$loadedOnly), require, character.only = TRUE)
invisible(lapply(paste0('package:', names(sessionInfo()$otherPkgs)), detach, character.only=TRUE, unload=TRUE, force=TRUE))

One can attempt to unload base packages via $basePkgs and also attempt using unloadNamespace(loadedNamespaces()). However these typically are fraught with errors and could break basic functionality such as causing sessionInfo() to return only errors. This typically occurs because of a lack of reversibility in the original package’s design. Currently timeDate can break irreversibly, for example.

(edit: 9/24/20) for version 4.0.2
The following first loads packages to test and then gives a sequence to fully detach all packages except for package “base” and “utils”. It is highly recommended that one does not detach those packages.

    invisible(suppressMessages(suppressWarnings(lapply(c("gsl","fBasics","stringr","stringi","Rmpfr"), require, character.only = TRUE))))
    invisible(suppressMessages(suppressWarnings(lapply(names(sessionInfo()$loadedOnly), require, character.only = TRUE))))
    sessionInfo()

    #the above is a test

    invisible(lapply(paste0('package:', c("stringr","fBasics")), detach, character.only=TRUE,unload=TRUE))
    #In the line above, I have inserted by hand what I know the package dependencies to be. A user must know this a priori or have their own automated
    #method to discover it. Without removing dependencies first, the user will have to cycle through loading namespaces and then detaching otherPkgs a
    #second time through.
    invisible(lapply(paste0('package:', names(sessionInfo()$otherPkgs)), detach, character.only=TRUE,unload=TRUE))

    bspkgs.nb<-sessionInfo()$basePkgs[sessionInfo()$basePkgs!="base"]
    bspkgs.nbu<-bspkgs.nb[bspkgs.nb!="utils"]
    names(bspkgs.nbu)<-bspkgs.nbu
    suppressMessages(invisible(lapply(paste0('package:', names(bspkgs.nbu)), detach, character.only=TRUE,unload=TRUE)))

    #again this thoroughly removes all packages and loaded namespaces except for base packages "base" and "utils" (which is highly not recommended).

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