[BioC] Access source code of internal function within R

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:02 AM, heyi xiao <xiaoheyiyh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I checked source code for summarizeOverlaps method in Rsamtools package and found that it calls some internal function .processBamFiles. And I want to check the details of this internal function, and I tried various methods which usually work for me, but no luck this time.
>
>> library(Rsamtools)
> ..
>> Rsamtools:::.processBamFile


You forgot the 's' at the end.

Dan


> Error in get(name, envir = asNamespace(pkg), inherits = FALSE) :
>   object '.processBamFile' not found
>> getAnywhere(".processBamFile")
> no object named '.processBamFile' was found
>
> In the end, I downloaded the Rsamtools source package and located the source code chunk for function .processBamFiles. But this is kind of awkward. Anyone knows why “:::” and getAnywhere don’t work, and are there better ways to access the source code of internal function within R? Thanks!
> Heyi
>
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