Zoom Packages
Last updated: January 4, 2023
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Packages are a set of functions and/or data that add functionality to R.
Looking for packages
- Package finder
- Your peers and the literature
Package documentation
Managing R packages
R packages can be installed, updated, and removed from within R:
install.packages("package-name")
remove.packages("package-name")
update_packages()
Loading packages
To make a package available in an R session, you load it with the library() function.
Example:
library(readxl)
Alternatively, you can access a function from a package without loading it with the syntax: package::function().
Example:
readxl::read_excel("file.xlsx")