Patricia, If I understand correctly what you need, this is already available through the main help page. If you type help.start() to get to the html help, then follow the link "Packages". This will give you an index of all available packages installed on your system (base + contributed). Clicking on any of the package names will give you a list of available functions in that package. This is a nice way to present a categorized index of several thousand functions. An additional advantage is that this index will be updated if you install more packages on your system.
Hope this helps. Christos Hatzis Nuvera Biosciences, Inc. 400 West Cummings Park Suite 2850 Woburn, MA 01801 Tel: 781-938-3830 www.nuverabio.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 3:10 AM To: Patricia J. Hawkins Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Glossay of available R functions On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Patricia J. Hawkins wrote: >>>>>> "ASA" == Alexandre Santos Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ASA> I am new to R and read this list to learn. It is amazing how > ASA> frequently new functions pop in messages. Useful and timesaving > ASA> functions like subset (above) must be documented somewhere. > > ASA> Is there a glossary of functions? > > I'm also new to R, and was wondering the same thing. Took a bunch of > tries, but if you run start.help() and then choose Packages, then > Base, you will get the list of functions. You get a list of objects (not just functions) in the base package. You can also get a list by library(help=base). However, that is far from all the functions available in base R. As a quick check as.matrix(sapply(search(), function(x) length(ls(x, all=TRUE)))) .GlobalEnv 0 package:methods 299 package:stats 497 package:graphics 79 package:grDevices 78 package:utils 152 package:datasets 103 Autoloads 1 package:base 1090 so it is less than half the objects loaded and visible in a default session. And there are another 18 packages shipped with R. Looking at a list of 2300 objects is daunting, and so we provide search facilities (including via the HTML pages). > As a newcomer, I hesitate to suggest this, but maybe there should be a > comment on the index page to that effect? Which index page? If you mean that given by help.start(), it is not a common request, and search is linked from there. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html