[R] Possible to get a definition of a function from a package to use without invoking the package?

[Roger D. Peng]

You should be able to download the source package from CRAN and copy the code 
for the 'instring()' function into your own source file.

-roger

Waichler, Scott R wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I often use the mod() and instring() functions that are available in the
> clim.pact package.  This package has a lot of dependencies, including
> installation of netCDF, and I haven't yet been able to get
> library(clim.pact) to work on a Mac OS 10.4.6.  A previous request for
> help with the Mac problem yielded no results, so now I wonder if I could
> just extract the definitions for the couple of functions that I need and
> save them in my own file of R functions.  I'm pretty sure that mod() and
> instring() are very basic and don't have any exotic dependencies.  I did
> find an alternative mod() in the new matlab package, and that's fine.
> Now I just need another way to get the instring() functionality.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott Waichler
> Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
> scott.waichler _at_ pnl.gov
> 
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