[R] Ways to get all function signatures of a library?

[Bert Gunter]

Perhaps the
?formals
function in R is what you are looking for. Or maybe its (internal C) code.

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
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"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
is certainly not wisdom."
Clifford Stoll




On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> are there ways to get signatures of all functions of a library in a
> format that is easy to process by a programm (list, xml or so)?
>
> The info about function name, return value and arguments (types) is all
> there in the docs, but more in a human readable format embedded in much
> extra information. How to extract it without writing a documentation
> parser or so? I'm pretty sure the functionality exists, but did not find
> it.
>
> Thanks for any hint.
>
> --
> cheers,
> Thorsten
>
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