On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Patricia J. Hawkins wrote: >>>>>> "ASA" == Alexandre Santos Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ASA> I am new to R and read this list to learn. It is amazing how > ASA> frequently new functions pop in messages. Useful and timesaving > ASA> functions like subset (above) must be documented somewhere. > > ASA> Is there a glossary of functions? > > I'm also new to R, and was wondering the same thing. Took a bunch of > tries, but if you run start.help() and then choose Packages, then > Base, you will get the list of functions.
You get a list of objects (not just functions) in the base package. You can also get a list by library(help=base). However, that is far from all the functions available in base R. As a quick check as.matrix(sapply(search(), function(x) length(ls(x, all=TRUE)))) .GlobalEnv 0 package:methods 299 package:stats 497 package:graphics 79 package:grDevices 78 package:utils 152 package:datasets 103 Autoloads 1 package:base 1090 so it is less than half the objects loaded and visible in a default session. And there are another 18 packages shipped with R. Looking at a list of 2300 objects is daunting, and so we provide search facilities (including via the HTML pages). > As a newcomer, I hesitate to suggest this, but maybe there should be a > comment on the index page to that effect? Which index page? If you mean that given by help.start(), it is not a common request, and search is linked from there. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
