[R] discovery (was: data.frame to character)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Robert Citek wrote:

> How can one discover or list all available built-in objects?

sort(unlist(lapply(search()[-1], ls)))

would be a good start, but with over 2000 what are you going to do with 
the information?  (Actually, there are more ...).

> LETTERS is apparently a built-in character vector.  ls() and objects
> () only lists the ones I've created.  Is there a function that lists
> all available built-in objects?
>
> For example, "pi" is another built-in, but "e" is not.  A means to
> list them would be nice.

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