R help - Jul 2009 - Check functions in package

Hi, I run R on a server via SSH, over a terminal.  After loading a specific
package, how do I know what functions are in that package?  Is there any way
to list or display them?

tia.
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Hi,

On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:16 PM, voidobscura wrote:
>
> Hi, I run R on a server via SSH, over a terminal.  After loading a  
> specific
> package, how do I know what functions are in that package?  Is there  
> any way
> to list or display them?

Here's one way. Let's say I load the "glmnet" package, at the
prompt I
could use tab-completion to which functions are exported:

R> library(glmnet)
R> glmnet::<TAB><TAB>
glmnet::coef.glmnet      glmnet::jerr             glmnet::plot.glmnet
glmnet::predict.elnet    glmnet::predict.lognet   glmnet::print.glmnet
glmnet::glmnet           glmnet::nonzeroCoef      glmnet::plotCoef
glmnet::predict.glmnet   glmnet::predict.multnet

<TAB><TAB> is hitting the tab key twice in quick succession.

There are probably better ways, but there's one option.

-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
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Hi,

You can use help to view the available help files with the package.
E.g. for survival package

help(package=survival)

Cheers,

Paul

voidobscura wrote:
> Hi, I run R on a server via SSH, over a terminal.  After loading a specific
> package, how do I know what functions are in that package?  Is there any
way
> to list or display them?
> 
> tia.