| getAnywhere {utils} | R Documentation |
These functions locates all objects with name matching its argument,
whether visible on the search path, registered as an S3 method or in a
namespace but not exported. getAnywhere() returns the objects
and argsAnywhere() returns the arguments of any objects that
are functions.
getAnywhere(x) argsAnywhere(x)
x |
a character string or name. |
The function looks at all loaded namespaces, whether or not they are associated with a package on the search list.
Where functions are found as an S3 method, an attempt is made to find which namespace registered them. This may not be correct, especially if a namespace is unloaded.
For getAnywhere() an object of class "getAnywhere". This is a list with components
name |
the name searched for. |
objs |
a list of objects found |
where |
a character vector explaining where the object(s) were found |
visible |
logical: is the object visible |
dups |
logical: is the object identical to one earlier in the list. |
Normally the structure will be hidden by the print method.
There is a [ method to extract one or more of the objects
found.
For argsAnywhere() one or more argument lists as returned by args.
getAnywhere("format.dist")
getAnywhere("simpleLoess") # not exported from stats
argsAnywhere(format.dist)