Olga Lyashevska wrote:
Dear all,
I was wondering if there is a way to explore a syntax of particular
function without package installation?
I am trying to write my own functions, and I would like to see how
other people approached similar problems. If every time I have to
install/load package to be able to explore function syntax I end up
installing loads of packages I am never going to use.
I have also tried to use package 'sos' which does provide a good
facility to find relevant information, but it seems it does not give
any info on function body.
The source of CRAN packages is available to download from there.
Sometimes the source gives better information than deparsed versions
of functions: it shows all the functions in the order the author
thought was sensible, it contains comments, etc. But it won't save much
time compared to installing and loading the package.
Duncan Murdoch
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