On 04/01/2011 7:13 AM, Sébastien Bihorel wrote:
Dear R-users,
Is there a easy way to access to a complete listing of available functions
from a R session? The help.start() and ? functions are great, but I feel
like they require the user to know the answer in advance (especially with
respect to function names)... I could not find a easy way to simply browse
through a list of functions and randomly pick one function to see what is
does.
Is there such a possibility in R?
Thanks
PS: I apologize if this question appears trivial.
This requires a two level search, but is probably more useful than just
a list of function names:
Run help.start() to get into the main help page.
Click on "Packages". Now you'll see a list of all installed packages
and their titles.
Choose an interesting package, and click on its name. Now you'll see a
list of most help aliases (generally all functions, plus some other
things) and the title of the associated help page.
You don't see all help aliases: S4 method documentation tends to have a
lot of aliases, and some of those are suppressed. But you should see
all help pages at least once.
Duncan Murdoch
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