From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Thu Jul  9 16:33:32 2009
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (spencerg)
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:33:32 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Number of functions, data sets, ..., in a package?
Message-ID: <4A55FFBC.4010805@prodsyse.com>

Hello: 


      How can one get the number of functions and data sets in a package? 


      I've written a function "PackageSum2" to get an extended package 
summary for an installed package.  I get much of what I want from the 
object returned by "help(package=pkgName)".  For example, 
"help(pac=...)$info[[1]]" is a character vector giving author, 
maintainer, date built, etc.  "help(pac=...)$info[[2]]" is a character 
vector with at least one row for each help page;  I can get the number 
of help pages by subtracting the number starting with blank (" ") from 
the length.  And "help(pac=...)$info[[3]]" is a character matrix 
describing the vignettes. 


      Is there a reasonably easy way to get numbers of (a) functions and 
(b) data sets in the package? 


      I want this for a the next version of "PackageSum2" in the 
"RSiteSearch" package.  Based partly on previous input from this list, 
the package is being renamed to "sos" with the primary 
"RSiteSearch.function" function being renamed to "findFn".  You can 
install the current development version via 'install.packages("sos", 
repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")'. 


      Thanks,
      Spencer



[Rd] Number of functions, data sets, ..., in a package?
spencerg