Searching for functions in R library
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Solution
For a listing of all the functions within a package, and links to their documentations, do:
help(package = "graphics")
That of course assumes that you have installed the package.
For your other question:
If you already know the name of the function you are looking for, do not use `help.search("plot")` but `help("plot")`. As the name suggests, `help.search` does a search through all the docs and returns every hit, very much like a Google search.
Finally, know that you can use:
- `?plot` as a shortcut to `help("plot")`
- `??plot` as a shortcut to `help.search("plot")`.
Problem
New to the forum. Is there a way to search for functions within a particular library in R? Lets say I would like a list of all the functions in the "graphics" library. How would do that? If I want to find the specific documentation on the "plot" command I am having trouble finding the documentation when I used the help.search("plot"). It gives me all these other functions from different libraries. I just want to be able to find and narrow down the searches when I look for a particular function.