I've been following this answer about finding a function that you don't know the name of. But searching for something ends up with error. What is wrong?
> ??"dir"
Error in `[<-`(`*tmp*`, , "name", value = dDB[, 1]) :
subscript out of bounds
> help.search("directory")
Error in `[<-`(`*tmp*`, , "name", value = dDB[, 1]) :
subscript out of bounds
> version
_
platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
arch x86_64
os linux-gnu
system x86_64, linux-gnu
status
major 3
minor 1.1
year 2014
month 07
day 10
svn rev 66115
language R
version.string R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
nickname Sock it to Me
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
[4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] xtable_1.8-0
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.1.1
> apropos('dir')
[1] "dir" "dir.create" "dirname"
[4] "getSrcDirectory" "list.dirs" ".rs.getProjectDirectory"
[7] ".rs.lintDirectory" ".rs.maxDirectoryList" "substituteDirect"
[10] "tempdir"
> getAnywhere('dir')
A single object matching ‘dir’ was found
It was found in the following places
package:base
namespace:base
with value
function (path = ".", pattern = NULL, all.files = FALSE, full.names = FALSE,
recursive = FALSE, ignore.case = FALSE, include.dirs = FALSE,
no.. = FALSE)
.Internal(list.files(path, pattern, all.files, full.names, recursive,
ignore.case, include.dirs, no..))
<bytecode: 0x3cbc750>
<environment: namespace:base>
> ?help.search
> find("help.search")
[1] "package:utils"
>
