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library -- load an R package

Synopsis

Description

This loads an R package. It is an RFunction that calls R's library function.

For example, suppose we want to load the abbey dataset with nickel content in a Canadian syenite rock. It is available in the MASS package.

i1 : library "MASS"

o1 = [1] "MASS"      "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets" 
     [7] "methods"   "base"     

o1 : RObject of type character
i2 : RSymbol "abbey"

o2 =  [1]   5.2   6.5   6.9   7.0   7.0   7.0   7.4   8.0   8.0   8.0   8.0   8.5
     [13]   9.0   9.0  10.0  11.0  11.0  12.0  12.0  13.7  14.0  14.0  14.0  16.0
     [25]  17.0  17.0  18.0  24.0  28.0  34.0 125.0

o2 : RObject of type double

For the programmer

The object library is an instance of the type RFunction.