reload(".") does not load "."

[heavywatal]

The behavior of reload(".") is a little surprising to me. After unloading ".", it tries to load a package with the same name from somewhere in.libPaths(). It applies to any case where a path is passed as pkg argument. I guess many users expect the package in the given path is loaded by this function even if they know load_all() is a more preferable way to reload a package under development.

devtools/R/reload.r

Lines 25 to 33 in 5bbcac4

	reload <- function(pkg = ".", quiet = FALSE) {
	pkg <- as.package(pkg)
	if (is_attached(pkg)) {
	if (!quiet) message("Reloading installed ", pkg$package)
	pkgload::unload(pkg$package)
	require(pkg$package, character.only = TRUE, quietly = TRUE)
	}
	}

[hadley]

I think this is a documentation problem since reload() is unrelated to load_all().

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