Hi Tom, If you assume that's a common question, and so likely to be in base, help.search("object", package="base") calls up a list of functions relating to objects. (Leaving off the package argument calls up a much longer one). Browsing thru the list gets you the intriguing line: class(base) Object Classes
?class gets you more information about that function, which sounds promising. class(myobject) will tell you what class(es) myobject belongs to. names(myobject) will show you the named "subcomponents", which can be accessed with myobject$somename The object in question is of the class gam (Generalized Additive > Model). I know how to pull out some data with the "predict" function, > but, when I try to print the value of the predict function, all I get > is a bunch of numbers. I'm not sure what you mean by "value of the predict function", but you could try typing just predict.gam at the prompt to get some idea of what it's doing (although not necessarily the complete source). Sarah -- Sarah Goslee http://www.stringpage.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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