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Dear R Gurus: How do you get source for functions which say "UseMethod" when you type in their names, please? I've tried getAnywhere and getMethods...I thought that might produce them. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Edna

Dear R Gurus: I'm working slowly through "R Programming for Bioinformatics", which is really interesting! Anyway, my question now is: what determines if a function is a builtin vs. a closure, please? For instance: > typeof(sqrt) [1] "builtin" > typeof(mean) [1] "closure" > Thanks, Edna Bell

Hi All, I'd like to see the function code behind the barplots2() function in the gplots package, however i come across a bit of a stumbling block of a hidden function, can anyone help? > library(gplots) > methods(barplot2) [1] barplot2.default* Non-visible functions are asterisked > barplot2 function (height, ...) UseMethod("barplot2") <environment:

Dear R users: I am looking for the source code for the R function extractAIC. Type the function name doesn't help: > extractAIC function (fit, scale, k = 2, ...) UseMethod("extractAIC") <environment: namespace:stats> And when I search it in the R source code, the best I can find is in (R source root)/library/stats/R/add.R: extractAIC <- function(fit, scale, k = 2,

Hello R People: Here's the Saturday night goofy question. I would like to see the code for TukeyHSD function and I tried the following: > getAnywhere("TukeyHSD") A single object matching ?TukeyHSD? was found It was found in the following places package:stats namespace:stats with value function (x, which, ordered = FALSE, conf.level = 0.95, ...)

R-help, Sorry for this question (I guess it has been addressed before but I could not find it in the archives) but how can I see a function code when the following comes up: > svymean function (x, design, na.rm = FALSE, ...) { .svycheck(design) UseMethod("svymean", design) } <environment: namespace:survey> Thanks in advance

Dear R Users, I have a question, how does one print an r function like t.test in R (to get the whole function and not just a summary of the environment)? For example if I type the following: > t.test function (x, ...) UseMethod("t.test") <environment: namespace:stats> > print(t.test) function (x, ...) UseMethod("t.test") <environment: namespace:stats> I

Hello Pardon for the elementary question, I did try searching the archives with various terms, but to no avail. I am using R1.9.1 on a windows machine One of the great advantages of R (to me, anyway) is being able to see the code for a function , e.g. by typing sd one sees the code for getting a standard deviation. However, for many functions this only provides info. including UseMethod, eg.

Buenos días: Otra opción es escribir directamente el nombre de la función en la consola de R: > randomForest function (x, ...) UseMethod("randomForest") En este caso, la función randomForest() llama a UseMethod() para seleccionar el método adecuado. Podemos ver los métodos para randomForest con la función methods(): > methods(randomForest) [1] randomForest.default*

Hi R users, I have a question. How can I see the code behind the function. For example, > boxplot function (x, ...) UseMethod("boxplot") <environment: namespace:graphics> I really would like to see how people code this. Could someone please show me how to see the code behind the function? Many Thanks Tu -- View this message in context:

Dear all, I was trying to see how the function 'confint' is defined. Doing > confint function (object, parm, level = 0.95, ...) UseMethod("confint") <environment: namespace:stats> does not really enlighten me. How can I get to see the implementation (I guess it should be possible according to the general philosophy of the R project)? Thanks in advance S??ren

Here I think S3 dispatch is very natural. Try the following: page <- function(x, method = c("dput", "print"), ...) UseMethod("page") page.getAnywhere <- function(x, ..., idx=NULL) { name <- x$name; objects <- x$obj; if (length(objects) == 0) stop("no object named '", name, "' was found"); if (is.null(idx)) {

Hi all R mailing listers: I am using the coda package. I tried to view the source of HPDinterval code by typing fix(HPDinterval), it dispalys as follows: function (obj, prob = 0.95, ...) UseMethod("HPDinterval") Then I search the answers about this case (see below), it still failed. Thank you in advance! David > getAnywhere('HPDinterval')2 differing objects matching

Dear all; This an FAQ. I tried to access lme source script so I can step into it to debug the problems resulting from a lme() call. I used getAnywhere("lme") or nlme:::lme, both produced only the function definition and "UseMethod("lme"). Any idea how to list the source code? TIA, Richard Yang [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

>na.contiguous function (object, ...) UseMethod("na.contiguous") <environment: namespace:stats> this is what I get when I look for the source code for some functions- Is there a way to look at the source code? -- Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like

I have put together a test class and methods > setClass("foo",representation(x="numeric")) [1] "foo" > setMethod("plot","foo",function(x,y,...)boxplot(x,...)) [1] "plot" > x <- rnorm(100) > class(x) <- "foo" > plot(x) > y <- new("foo",x=rnorm(50)) > class(y) [1] "foo" My

In S-Plus, I can look at the structure of a function (for example, hist) simply by entering hist <RETURN> however, if I do this in R, I get the response function (x, ...) UseMethod("hist") <environment: namespace:graphics> How can I inspect the structure of a function in R? ------------------------------- Richard Dybowski 143 Village Way

Good morning, I'd like to look at the code for the R function head. When I type just the word head, I get back function(x, ...) UseMethod("head") <environment: namespace:utils> I expected to see several lines of R code. Any suggestions? Thanks, Walt Paczkowski

Hi R Gurus! This is definitely off topic, but I thought I'd try: what is the way to put in url's into a Latex file, please? I know that you start with a \newcommand statement, with some kind of argument that will change, but I'm not sure how to set it up, please. thanks, Edna Bell

Dear R Gurus: I read somewhere that functions are considered vectors. Is this true, please? thanks Edna Bell