This is a package about nothing.
The idea is that when you do require(nothing) you express that you don't need
anything, and therefore nothing assumes you are fine just using the
base package, so it detaches all other packages.
> loadedNamespaces()
[1] "base" "datasets" "grDevices" "graphics" "methods" "stats"
[7] "utils"
>
> require(nothing, quietly = TRUE)
>
> loadedNamespaces()
[1] "base"
I agree, this is completely useless.