[R] Check functions in package

[Tobias Verbeke]

Steve Lianoglou wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:16 PM, voidobscura wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi, I run R on a server via SSH, over a terminal.  After loading a 
>> specific
>> package, how do I know what functions are in that package?  Is there 
>> any way
>> to list or display them?
> 
> 
> Here's one way. Let's say I load the "glmnet" package, at the prompt I 
> could use tab-completion to which functions are exported:
> 
> R> library(glmnet)
> R> glmnet::<TAB><TAB>
> glmnet::coef.glmnet      glmnet::jerr             glmnet::plot.glmnet
> glmnet::predict.elnet    glmnet::predict.lognet   glmnet::print.glmnet
> glmnet::glmnet           glmnet::nonzeroCoef      glmnet::plotCoef
> glmnet::predict.glmnet   glmnet::predict.multnet
> 
> <TAB><TAB> is hitting the tab key twice in quick succession.
> 
> There are probably better ways, but there's one option.

An alternative is (in this case) to call

library(help = glmnet)

Best,
Tobias