detach all packages while working in R

Question

While working to solve another problem I got this problem:

I can remove all R objects by:

rm(list = ls(all = TRUE))

Is there equiv

Answer 1

Building on Gavin's answer but not quite to a full function would be this sequence:

sess.pkgs <- function (package = NULL) 
{   z <- list()
       if (is.null(package)) {
        package <- grep("^package:", search(), value = TRUE)
        keep <- sapply(package, function(x) x == "package:base" || 
            !is.null(attr(as.environment(x), "path")))
        package <- sub("^package:", "", package[keep])
    }
    pkgDesc <- lapply(package, packageDescription)
    if (length(package) == 0) 
        stop("no valid packages were specified")
    basePkgs <- sapply(pkgDesc, function(x) !is.null(x$Priority) && 
        x$Priority == "base")
    z$basePkgs <- package[basePkgs]
    if (any(!basePkgs)) {
        z$otherPkgs <-  package[!basePkgs]
    }
    z
}

lapply(paste("package:",sess.pkgs()$otherPkgs, sep=""), detach, 
                             character.only = TRUE, unload = TRUE)