[R] Inspecting R functions
Uwe Ligges
ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Mon Jan 3 12:05:10 CET 2005
Richard Dybowski wrote:
> 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?
Well, if hist() would be a an S3 generic with methods in S-PLUS as well,
it would look quite similar like in R...
Type methods(hist) to see which methods do exists, in particular you
want to get hist.default, I guess.
Uwe Ligges
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