[R] srt --- slope text with function? (list user defined functions)

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon Feb 6 08:30:15 CET 2006


On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Pierre Kleiber wrote:

> I'll respond to one of your multitude of queries below.  Suggest that you
> confine your postings to a single issue so that the subject heading is more
> meaningful.
>
> Cheers, Pierre
>
>
> ivo welch offered the following remark on 02/05/06 11:28...
> [...]
>>
>> * is there a way to print all my user defined functions?  I have an
>> init file, in which I am defining all sorts of useful utility
>> functions, and I would like to print what I have defined (for memory)
>> upon a read of this init file?  that is, something that has
>> functionality like
>>    note.all.local.definitions.now.in.vector( all.local.functions )
>>    a <- function() { }
>>    b <- function() { }
>>    cat( all.local.functions ); # should print 'a' and 'b'.
>
> The following lists the functions defined in a (default current) environment:
>
> "lsf" <- function (pos = 1)
> {
>   junk <- ls(pos, all.names = TRUE)
>   junk[sapply(junk, function(x) is.function(eval(as.symbol(x))))]
> }

I am sorry, it does not in general (since eval is not looking in that 
environment).  See ls.str (in utils) for a more elegant way to do this via 
exists(mode = "function")

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