This probably doesn't answer your question, but, amazingly enough, try googling the class name. It worked for GAlignmnets.
Incidentally, there's no reason class names have to be unique among R packages.. And they can be hidden in namespaces. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." H. Gilbert Welch On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Yuan Luo <yuan.hypnos....@gmail.com> wrote: > How to find the package of a class given classname? > For example, there is a class called GAlignments, I want to do something > like > attr("GAlignments", "package") that gives you the package where the class > is defined? But of course, attr("GAlignments", "package") won't work... > > Thanks for any help! > Yuan > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.