probably you're looking for str(), e.g., lis <- list(x = 1:10, y = letters[1:3]) str(lis)
I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris ---- Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/(0)16/336899 Fax: +32/(0)16/337015 Web: http://med.kuleuven.be/biostat/ http://www.student.kuleuven.be/~m0390867/dimitris.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas L Jones, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "R-project help" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 9:07 PM Subject: [R] Function to tell you how an object is put together > Question: Suppose I have an arbitrary object. Is there a function > which will > accept the object as an argument and sort of give the format of the > object, > how it is put together, etc.? The analysis would include the > attributes and > the names of the attributes. Also, things like whether or not the > object is > an array; whether or not it is a matrix, etc. > > Tom Jones > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
