[R] getting TukeyHSD code

[David Winsemius]

On Jan 12, 2013, at 9:54 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:

> Hello R People:
>
> Here's the Saturday night goofy question.  I would like to see the
> code for TukeyHSD function and I tried the following:
>
>> getAnywhere("TukeyHSD")
> A single object matching ‘TukeyHSD’ was found
> It was found in the following places
>  package:stats
>  namespace:stats
> with value
>
> function (x, which, ordered = FALSE, conf.level = 0.95, ...)
> UseMethod("TukeyHSD")
> <bytecode: 0x0000000005d22f90>
> <environment: namespace:stats>
>> stats:::TukeyHSD
> function (x, which, ordered = FALSE, conf.level = 0.95, ...)
> UseMethod("TukeyHSD")
> <bytecode: 0x0000000005d22f90>
> <environment: namespace:stats>
>>
>
> I thought that the 3 colon would take care of matters.  What am I
> missing, please?

TukeyHSD is not the real function name. It's a generic function and  
you need to look at the code for whichever function of the possibly  
multiple TukeyHSD's you are interested in.

?methods
methods(TukeyHSD)

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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA