[R] Missing functions

Paul Hiemstra
Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:54:10 -0000

Kenny Shen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to R and have been working hard to get familiarized with it. A
> problem I'm facing now is that having installed some packages (psych,
doBy),
> I can't seem to access the functions even through there was no error
> messages when I load them using library(). I get an error telling me the
> function doesn't exist. But when I ran e.g. library(help = psych), the
> function I want was missing.
>
> I did find that when I load other packages, there will be some
> initialisation messages, but loading psych and doBy just brings up the
> prompt again with no output.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Kenny
>
>
Hi,

Try psych:::theFunctionIWant, does this find the function?

cheers,
Paul

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