[R] Inspecting R functions

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:50:22 +0000, Richard Dybowski
<richard at inferspace.com> 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?

It's the same as in S-PLUS, what you saw *is* the structure of hist in
R, i.e. it is an S3 generic.

To see the implementation for a particular class, you need to say
which method you want to look at, and then use getS3method to see it.
For example,

getS3method('hist', 'default')

shows the default method.

Duncan