apropos | R Documentation |
apropos()
returns a character vector giving the names of
objects in the search list matching (as a regular expression)
what
.
find()
returns where objects of a given name can be found.
apropos(what, where = FALSE, ignore.case = TRUE, mode = "any") find(what, mode = "any", numeric = FALSE, simple.words = TRUE)
what |
character string. For |
where, numeric |
a logical indicating whether positions in the search list should also be returned |
ignore.case |
logical indicating if the search should be
case-insensitive, |
mode |
character; if not |
simple.words |
logical; if |
If mode != "any"
only those objects which are of mode mode
are considered.
find
is a different user interface for a similar task to
apropos
. By default (simple.words == TRUE
),
only whole names are matched. Unlike apropos
, matching is
always case-sensitive.
Unlike the default behaviour of ls
, names which
begin with a . are included (and these are often
‘internal’ objects — as from R 3.4.0 most such are excluded).
For apropos
, a character vector sorted by name. For
where = TRUE
this has names giving the (numerical) positions on
the search path.
For find
, either a character vector of environment names or
(for numeric = TRUE
) a numerical vector of positions on the
search path with names the names of the corresponding environments.
Originally, Kurt Hornik and Martin Maechler (May 1997).
glob2rx
to convert wildcard patterns to regular expressions.
objects
for listing objects from one place,
help.search
for searching the help system,
search
for the search path.
require(stats) ## Not run: apropos("lm") apropos("GLM") # several apropos("GLM", ignore.case = FALSE) # not one apropos("lq") cor <- 1:pi find("cor") #> ".GlobalEnv" "package:stats" find("cor", numeric = TRUE) # numbers with these names find("cor", numeric = TRUE, mode = "function") # only the second one rm(cor) ## Not run: apropos(".", mode="list") # a long list # need a DOUBLE backslash '\\' (in case you don't see it anymore) apropos("\\[") # everything % not diff-able length(apropos(".")) # those starting with 'pr' apropos("^pr") # the 1-letter things apropos("^.$") # the 1-2-letter things apropos("^..?$") # the 2-to-4 letter things apropos("^.{2,4}$") # the 8-and-more letter things apropos("^.{8,}$") table(nchar(apropos("^.{8,}$")))
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