[R] accessing source code in R packages

[Spencer Graves]

	  Is there general documentation on a procedure to follow to:

	  (a) Find what methods are available for a particular class of objects?

	  (b) Find what classes of objects have methods defined for a partilar 
generic function?

	  (c) Get the code that's actually used?

	  For example, I recently needed to access numbers associated with an 
object of class "lmer".  Sundar suggested I use with 'getMethod("show", 
"summary.lmer")'.  However, this doesn't work with the example below.

	  Thanks,
	  spencer graves

Francisco J. Zagmutt wrote:

> or getAnywhere()
> 
> 
>> From: "ronggui.wong" <042045003 at fudan.edu.cn>
>> Reply-To: 042045003 at fudan.edu.cn
>> To: "r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>> Subject: Re: [R] accessing source code in R packages
>> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:03:45 +0800
>>
>>
>>
>> >R is open source.  You can download the source code from CRAN.
>> >
>> >If you mean at the R prompt, usually you see the code for a function by
>> >typing the name of the function at the R prompt, without parentheses.
>> >`Usually' because some methods are delibrately `hidden' from users, and
>> >should only be accessed through their generics.  There are still ways 
>> to get
>> >around that.
>> sometimes,the getS3method is helpfull.
>>
>> >library(MASS)
>> > princomp.default
>> Error: object "princomp.default" not found
>> > getS3method("princomp","default")
>> function (x, cor = FALSE, scores = TRUE, covmat = NULL, subset = 
>> rep(TRUE,
>>     nrow(as.matrix(x))), ...)
>> {
>> ----snip----
>>
>>
>> >
>> >However, the code you get at the R prompt is not the _source_, as it 
>> does
>> >not contain any original comments.  You need to go to the source I 
>> refer to
>> >above.
>> >
>> >Andy
>> >
>> >> From: ritesh at pdx.edu
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I am new the R world and would like to know how can I access
>> >> source codes of
>> >> standard functions in R?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Ritesh.
>> >>
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