Maybe I have to much stuff loaded in the workspace, Gavin, you are right: > sessionInfo() R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) i386-pc-mingw32
locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Switzerland.1252 LC_CTYPE=German_Switzerland.1252 LC_MONETARY=German_Switzerland.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=German_Switzerland.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] PerformanceAnalytics_1.0.0 quantmod_0.3-13 TTR_0.20-1 Defaults_1.1-1 xts_0.7-0 [6] fPortfolio_2100.78 Rglpk_0.3-5 slam_0.1-9 fAssets_2100.78 fCopulae_2110.78 [11] sn_0.4-14 mnormt_1.3-3 fBasics_2110.79 timeSeries_2110.87 timeDate_2110.87 [16] robustbase_0.5-0-1 quadprog_1.4-12 MASS_7.3-5 fEcofin_290.76 foreach_1.3.0 [21] codetools_0.2-2 iterators_1.0.3 zoo_1.6-3 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.10.1 lattice_0.18-3 tools_2.10.1 On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 14:56, Gavin Simpson <gavin.simp...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 14:38 +0200, Sergey Goriatchev wrote: >> Erik, I see the following when I type "apply" at the prompt: >> >> > apply >> standardGeneric for "apply" defined from package "base" > > Looks like you have something loaded in your workspace (or have created > something) that has altered the usual definition of apply(). Most likely > is a package has made the base apply() function an S4 method. > > Send the output of sessionInfo() to the list so we can help if you > interest is in the S4 method version of apply() (myself I'm not too > familiar with S4 methods just yet). > > If you start R in a clean session, you should see the normal definition > of apply > > R --vanilla > apply > > On Windows you may need to add that option to the shortcut you use to > start R. > > You could also try > > base:::apply > > to see the version in the base R namespace (at least I think that should > work). > >> >> function (X, MARGIN, FUN, ...) >> standardGeneric("apply") >> <environment: 0x03cad7d0> >> Methods may be defined for arguments: X, MARGIN, FUN >> Use showMethods("apply") for currently available ones. >> >> Also, whether I type "mean" at the prompt, or I type "edit(mean)", I >> do not see the underlying code for function "mean". How would I be >> able to see it? > > The info I sent in my previous email should help you with the mean > function --- as long as that hasn't been overwritten by anything. > >> methods(mean) > [1] mean.data.frame mean.Date mean.default mean.difftime > [5] mean.POSIXct mean.POSIXlt >> getS3method("mean", "default") > function (x, trim = 0, na.rm = FALSE, ...) > { > if (!is.numeric(x) && !is.complex(x) && !is.logical(x)) { > warning("argument is not numeric or logical: returning NA") > return(NA_real_) > } > if (na.rm) > x <- x[!is.na(x)] > if (!is.numeric(trim) || length(trim) != 1L) > stop("'trim' must be numeric of length one") > n <- length(x) > if (trim > 0 && n) { > if (is.complex(x)) > stop("trimmed means are not defined for complex data") > if (any(is.na(x))) > return(NA_real_) > if (trim >= 0.5) > return(stats::median(x, na.rm = FALSE)) > lo <- floor(n * trim) + 1 > hi <- n + 1 - lo > x <- sort.int(x, partial = unique(c(lo, hi)))[lo:hi] > } > .Internal(mean(x)) > } > <environment: namespace:base> > > Although here, none of the mean methods are hidden so you could just > type their names directly. > > The meaning of the .Internal( ) bit is that this calls internal C > code. Uwe Ligges article discusses what to do at this point. > > HTH > > G > >> >> --- >> My machine: >> platform i386-pc-mingw32 >> arch i386 >> os mingw32 >> system i386, mingw32 >> status >> major 2 >> minor 10.1 >> year 2009 >> month 12 >> day 14 >> svn rev 50720 >> language R >> version.string R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 14:26, Erik Iverson <er...@ccbr.umn.edu> wrote: >> > Sergey Goriatchev wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> If I want to see how, say, apply function is written, how would I be >> >> able to do that? >> >> Just typing "apply" at the prompt does not work. >> >> >> > >> > Well, it is supposed to work, and it works for me. 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