[R] accessing source code in R packages

[Francisco J. Zagmutt]

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>From: "ronggui.wong" <042045003 at fudan.edu.cn>
>Reply-To: 042045003 at fudan.edu.cn
>To: "r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>Subject: Re: [R] accessing source code in R packages
>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:03:45 +0800
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> >R is open source.  You can download the source code from CRAN.
> >
> >If you mean at the R prompt, usually you see the code for a function by
> >typing the name of the function at the R prompt, without parentheses.
> >`Usually' because some methods are delibrately `hidden' from users, and
> >should only be accessed through their generics.  There are still ways to 
>get
> >around that.
>sometimes,the getS3method is helpfull.
>
> >library(MASS)
> > princomp.default
>Error: object "princomp.default" not found
> > getS3method("princomp","default")
>function (x, cor = FALSE, scores = TRUE, covmat = NULL, subset = rep(TRUE,
>     nrow(as.matrix(x))), ...)
>{
>----snip----
>
>
> >
> >However, the code you get at the R prompt is not the _source_, as it does
> >not contain any original comments.  You need to go to the source I refer 
>to
> >above.
> >
> >Andy
> >
> >> From: ritesh at pdx.edu
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am new the R world and would like to know how can I access
> >> source codes of
> >> standard functions in R?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ritesh.
> >>
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