getAnywhere {base}

R Documentation

Retrieve an R Object, Including from a Namespace

Description

This 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.

Usage

getAnywhere(x)

Arguments

x	a character string or name.

Details

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.

Value

An object of class "getAnywhere". This is a list with components

name	the name searched for.
funs	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.

See Also

get, getFromNamespace

Examples

getAnywhere("format.dist")
getAnywhere("simpleLoess") # not exported from modreg

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