[R] listing all functions in R

[Gavin Simpson]

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 13:48 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> Could you tell us what you mean by

Thank you for your reply, Prof. Ripley.

> 
> - 'function'  (if() and + are functions in R, so do you want those?)

I was thinking about functions that are used like this: foo()
So I don't need things like "names<-". I don't need functions like +. -,
$, as I can highlight the separately if desired, though I'm not doing
this at the moment.

Functions like for() while(), if() function() are handled separately.

> 
> - 'a base R installation'?   What is 'base R' (standard + recommended 
> packages?)  And on what platform: the list is platform-specific?

Yes, I mean standard + recommended packages. As for platform, most of my
intended audience will be MS Windows users, though I am using Linux
(Fedora) to generate this list (i.e. my R installation is on Linux).

> 
> Here is a reasonable shot:
> 
> findfuns <- function(x) {
>      if(require(x, character.only=TRUE)) {
>         env <- paste("package", x, sep=":")
>         nm <- ls(env, all=TRUE)
>         nm[unlist(lapply(nm, function(n) exists(n, where=env,
>                                                mode="function",
>                                                inherits=FALSE)))]
>      } else character(0)
> }
> pkgs <- dir(.Library)
> z <-  lapply(pkgs, findfuns)
> names(z) <- pkgs

Excellent, that works just fine for me. I can edit out certain packages
that I don't expect to use, before formatting as desired. I can also use
this function on a library of packages that I use regularly and will be
using in the web pages.

> 
> I don't understand your desired format, but
> 
> write(sQuote(sort(unique(unlist(z)))), "")

I wanted a single string "...", with entries enclosed in "''" and
separated by "," (this is to go in a PHP array). I can generate such a
string from your z, above, as follows:

paste(sQuote(sort(unique(unlist(z)), decreasing = TRUE)), 
      collapse = ", ")

> 
> gives a single-column quoted list.  It does include internal functions, 
> operators, S3 methods ... so you probably want to edit it.

Once again, thank you.

All the best

Gav

> 
> 
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Gavin Simpson wrote:
> 
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I'm building an R syntax highlighting file for GeSHi [*] for a website I
> > am currently putting together. The syntax file needs a list of keywords
> > to highlight. How can I generate a list of all the functions in a base R
> > installation?
> >
> > Ideally the list would be formatted like this:
> >
> > "'fun1', 'fun2', 'fun3'"
> >
> > when printed to the screen so I can copy and paste it into the syntax
> > file.
> >
> > I'm sure this has been asked before, but I stupidly didn't save that
> > email and I couldn't come up with a suitable query parameter for
> > Jonathan Baron's search site to return results before timing out.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Gav
> >
> 
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