R help - Jul 2004 - package.contents() deprecated, what replaces it?

Back on 18-June a colleague (Earl Glynn) asked:
=================I did a

    ?package.contents

in version 1.9.0. The help file says this is deprecated, and says to
"see also" Deprecated and Defunct, but what is the "new"
function that
replaces packge.contents?

The function still seems to work, but it's just tagged as deprecated.

efg  
=================I have the same question, and also could not find the answer
despite
searching "everywhere". I couldn't find a followup to the
question.

I've written an instruction manual introducing
R to my institute's students, which includes the suggestion to use this
command, e.g.

   For example, to see what's in the geostatistical package
\texttt{gstat}:
   \begin{verbatim}
   > package.contents("gstat")
    \end{verbatim}

but now they see an off-putting "deprecated" message. Please advise.

D G RossiterD G Rossiter
Senior University Lecturer
Department of Earth Systems Analysis (DESA)
International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth
Observation (ITC)
Hengelosestraat 99
PO Box 6, 7500 AA Enschede, The Netherlands
Phone:	+31 (0)53 4874 499
Fax:	+31 (0)53 4874 336
mailto:rossiter at itc.nl,  Internet: http://www.itc.nl/personal/rossiter

package.contents("gstat") is really ugly, and not something we would
ever
recommend for end users.  E.g. library(help=gstat) has always done a
better job.

The information package.contents regurgitates is itself deprecated, to be 
replaced by metadata (in package subdir Meta) that other tools, e.g. 
library(help=), can format nicely.  Had namespaces be available back then, 
package.contents would never have been user-visible.


On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, David Rossiter wrote:
> Back on 18-June a colleague (Earl Glynn) asked:
> =================> I did a
> 
>     ?package.contents
> 
> in version 1.9.0. The help file says this is deprecated, and says to
> "see also" Deprecated and Defunct, but what is the
"new" function that
> replaces packge.contents?
> 
> The function still seems to work, but it's just tagged as deprecated.
> 
> efg  
> =================> I have the same question, and also could not find the
answer despite
> searching "everywhere". I couldn't find a followup to the
question.
> 
> I've written an instruction manual introducing
> R to my institute's students, which includes the suggestion to use this
> command, e.g.
> 
>    For example, to see what's in the geostatistical package
> \texttt{gstat}:
>    \begin{verbatim}
>    > package.contents("gstat")
>     \end{verbatim}
> 
> but now they see an off-putting "deprecated" message. Please
advise.
> 
> D G RossiterD G Rossiter
> Senior University Lecturer
> Department of Earth Systems Analysis (DESA)
> International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth
> Observation (ITC)
> Hengelosestraat 99
> PO Box 6, 7500 AA Enschede, The Netherlands
> Phone:	+31 (0)53 4874 499
> Fax:	+31 (0)53 4874 336
> mailto:rossiter at itc.nl,  Internet: http://www.itc.nl/personal/rossiter
> 
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