[R] How to see how a function is written

[Sergey Goriatchev]

Erik, I see the following when I type "apply" at the prompt:

> apply
standardGeneric for "apply" defined from package "base"

function (X, MARGIN, FUN, ...)
standardGeneric("apply")
<environment: 0x03cad7d0>
Methods may be defined for arguments: X, MARGIN, FUN
Use  showMethods("apply")  for currently available ones.

Also, whether I type "mean" at the prompt, or I type "edit(mean)", I
do not see the underlying code for function "mean". How would I be
able to see it?

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My machine:
platform       i386-pc-mingw32
arch           i386
os             mingw32
system         i386, mingw32
status
major          2
minor          10.1
year           2009
month          12
day            14
svn rev        50720
language       R
version.string R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)







On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 14:26, Erik Iverson <eriki at ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:
> Sergey Goriatchev wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> If I want to see how, say, apply function is written, how would I be
>> able to do that?
>> Just typing "apply" at the prompt does not work.
>>
>
> Well, it is supposed to work, and it works for me.  So you need to tell us
> what "does not work" means, and all the info the posting guide requests, OS,
> versions, etc.
>



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