[R] Viewing function source

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Most of the time you just use

rpois

or, to use a pager,

page(rpois)

For some functions the function is hidden from the end user, and for those 
(indeed, for any object the system can find) you can use

getAnywhere("foo.bar")


In your example, it will not be too revealing:

> rpois
function (n, lambda)
.Internal(rpois(n, lambda))

....

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Paul Meagher wrote:

> I know I should probably RTFM for this question, but could someone tell me
> if R supports the idea of "viewing source" on any particular function you
> want to use?
> 
> If I want to "view source" on the rpois() function, for example, can I do
> somethink like:
> 
> source(rpois)
> 
> To see how the function is implemented?


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