R help - Oct 2011 - Code behind the Function

Hi,

I am a new user in R.

I wanted to study the code for some R commands.

For example, as I was studying PCA analysis there is a command in R, as
"princomp". Normally if we type the command we get the code behind the
function, but I am not able to get for this one.

*> princomp
function (x, ...)
UseMethod("princomp")
<environment: namespace:stats*

It would be helpful if someone could throw light on this.

Regards
Vikram

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On 11-10-18 7:34 AM, Vikram Bahure wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a new user in R.
>
> I wanted to study the code for some R commands.
>
> For example, as I was studying PCA analysis there is a command in R, as
> "princomp". Normally if we type the command we get the code
behind the
> function, but I am not able to get for this one.
>
> *>  princomp
> function (x, ...)
> UseMethod("princomp")
> <environment: namespace:stats*
>
> It would be helpful if someone could throw light on this.
That is the code for that function.  If you want information on the 
functions it calls, see Uwe Ligges' article "Accessing the
Sources",
linked from this page:

http://developer.r-project.org/TechDocs/

Duncan Murdoch