R help - Oct 2016 - Function Distributions does not exist in package stats

I was looking function Distribution into stats package: it does not exist!

I am working with:

version
                _
platform       x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
arch           x86_64
os             linux-gnu
system         x86_64, linux-gnu
status
major          3
minor          3.1
year           2016
month          06
day            21
svn rev        70800
language       R
version.string R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
nickname       Bug in Your Hair

Sincerely

Hello,

'Distribution' is not the name of a function in package stats.
At an R prompt type ?Distributions. In that help page you will read

"Distributions {stats}	R Documentation
Distributions in the stats package
Description

Density, cumulative distribution function, quantile function and random 
variate generation for many standard probability distributions are 
available in the stats package. "

followed by the available distributions. There are also many other 
distributions available in the many packages on CRAN.

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 13-10-2016 17:42, hugo escreveu:
> I was looking function Distribution into stats package: it does not exist!
>
> I am working with:
>
> version
>                 _
> platform       x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           x86_64
> os             linux-gnu
> system         x86_64, linux-gnu
> status
> major          3
> minor          3.1
> year           2016
> month          06
> day            21
> svn rev        70800
> language       R
> version.string R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
> nickname       Bug in Your Hair
>
> Sincerely
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
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> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Hi Hugo,
If you look at the help page for "distributions", you will see that it
describes a number of functions that return density functions, etc.
for specific distributions. If you are looking for something that
informs you which distribution might approximate an existing set of
values, try the "fitdistr" function in the MASS package.

Jim


On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 3:42 AM, hugo <baronahugo31 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I was looking function Distribution into stats package: it does not exist!
>
> I am working with:
>
> version
>                _
> platform       x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           x86_64
> os             linux-gnu
> system         x86_64, linux-gnu
> status
> major          3
> minor          3.1
> year           2016
> month          06
> day            21
> svn rev        70800
> language       R
> version.string R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
> nickname       Bug in Your Hair
>
> Sincerely
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.