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base (version 3.5.3)

The R Base Package

Description

Base R functions.

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3.5.3

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Part of R 3.5.3

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R-core R-core@R-project.org

Last Published

December 12th, 2019

Functions in base (3.5.3)

Read or Set the Declared Encodings for a Character Vector

Bessel Functions

Modern Interfaces to C/C++ code

InternalMethods

Internal Generic Functions

Arithmetic Operators

Marking Objects as Defunct

Extract or Replace Parts of an Object

Environment Variables

Inhibit Interpretation/Conversion of Objects

Miscellaneous Mathematical Functions

Reserved Words in R

Foreign Function Interface

Value of Last Evaluated Expression

NumericConstants

Numeric Constants

Operators on the Date Class

Date-time Conversion Functions from Numeric Representations

Utilities for Processing Rd Files

Recursive Calling

Hyperbolic Functions

Wildcard Expansion on File Paths

Extract System and User Information

Report Information on C Stack Size and Usage

Return the R Home Directory

DateTimeClasses

Date-Time Classes

Extract.data.frame

Extract or Replace Parts of a Data Frame

Extract or Replace Parts of a Factor

Logarithms and Exponentials

Find Details of the Numerical and Monetary Representations in the Current Locale

Read File Symbolic Links

Memory Limits in R

Memory Available for Data Storage

Look Up a Primitive Function

Logical Operators

Call an Internal Function

Built-in Constants

Parentheses and Braces

‘Not Available’ / Missing Values

Platform Specific Variables

Rounding of Numbers

Approximate String Matching (Fuzzy Matching)

The Null Object

Suspend Execution for a Time Interval

Get Current Date and Time

Special Functions of Mathematics

Are All Values True?

Get Environment Variables

Operator Syntax and Precedence

Get the Process ID of the R Session

Date Conversion Functions to and from Character

Initialization at Start of an R Session

Assignment Operators

Apply Functions Over Array Margins

Find Full Paths to Executables

Vectorize a Scalar Function

Date-time Conversion Functions

Convert Object to Function

Test if Two Objects are (Nearly) Equal

Object Attributes

Trigonometric Functions

Find All Names in an Expression

Maxima and Minima

Object Attribute Lists

Attach Set of R Objects to Search Path

Assign a Value to a Name

Are Some Values True?

Coerce to an Environment Object

Coerce to a Data Frame

Manipulate File Paths

Defunct Functions in Package base

base-deprecated

Deprecated Functions in Package base

Array Transposition

Bin a Numeric Vector

Internal Objects in Package base

The R Base Package

Foreign-internal

Internal Versions of the Foreign Function Interface

Inverse from Choleski (or QR) Decomposition

Concatenate and Print

Functions to Retrieve Values Supplied by Calls to the Browser

Environment Browser

Combine R Objects by Rows or Columns

Binding and Environment Locking, Active Bindings

Bitwise Logical Operations

Random Number Generation

User-supplied Random Number Generation

Sys.setFileTime

Set or Unset Environment Variables

R Project Contributors

Functions to Manipulate Connections (Files, URLs, ...)

Expand a String with Respect to a Target Table

Version Information

Abbreviate Strings

Character Vectors

Argument List of a Function

Multi-way Arrays

Call With Current Continuation

On-demand Loading of Packages

Solve an Upper or Lower Triangular System

System Date and Time

Condition Handling and Recovery

Read and Write Data in DCF Format

Search for Masked Objects on the Search Path

Expression Deparsing

Convert a Data Frame to a Numeric Matrix

Options for Expression Deparsing

Report Capabilities of this Build of R

dataframeHelpers

Data Frame Auxiliary Functions

Returns the Names of All Built-in Objects

Access to and Manipulation of the Body of a Function

Execute a Function Call

Partial substitution in expressions

Identity Function to Suppress Checking

Apply a Function Over Values in an Environment

Apply a Function to a Data Frame Split by Factors

Combine Values into a Vector or List

Determine Duplicate Elements

Foreign Function Interface

Warn About Extraneous Arguments in the "..." of Its Caller

The Choleski Decomposition

Spectral Decomposition of a Matrix

Extract File Information

Debug a Function

Delay Evaluation

Partial String Matching

Character Translation and Casefolding

Dimensions of an Object

Dimnames of an Object

Manipulation of Directories and File Permissions

Form Row and Column Sums and Means

Evaluate an (Unevaluated) Expression

Is an Object Defined?

Row and Column Names

Construct Path to File

getDLLRegisteredRoutines

Reflectance Information for C/Fortran routines in a DLL

Query or Set a "comment" Attribute

Copyrights of Files Used to Build R

Complex Numbers and Basic Functionality

Extract Command Line Arguments

Formatting Using C-style Formats

Function Definition

Matrix Crossproduct

Common Higher-Order Functions in Functional Programming Languages

Display One or More Text Files

File Manipulation

Find Interval Numbers or Indices

Lagged Differences

Garbage Collection

Force Evaluation of an Argument

Cumulative Sums, Products, and Extremes

Time Intervals / Differences

…, ..1, etc used in Functions

Get DLLs Loaded in Current Session

S3 Group Generic Functions

Retrieve Headers from URLs

Convert a Date or Date-Time Object to a Factor

Compute Factor Interactions

Is R Running Interactively?

Grouping Permutation

Double-Precision Vectors

Test Objects for Exact Equality

Report Time Spent in Garbage Collection

Torture Garbage Collector

Create a Data Frame from All Combinations of Factor Variables

Identity Function

Convert Numeric to Factor

Compute or Estimate the Condition Number of a Matrix

Pattern Matching and Replacement

Pattern Matching for Raw Vectors

Unevaluated Expressions

Report Versions of Third-Party Software

Calculate the Determinant of a Matrix

Kronecker Products on Arrays

Apply a Function over a List or Vector

Call a function with Some Arguments Forced

Lazy Load a Database of R Objects

Is an Object of Type (Primitive) Function?

From A List, Build or Add To an Environment

Access to and Manipulation of the Formal Arguments

Is an Object a Language Object?

Detach Objects from the Search Path

Lists of Open/Active Graphics Devices

Write an Object to a File or Recreate it

Drop Redundant Extent Information

Encode Character Vector as for Printing

Is an Object ‘internally classed’?

Test if a Matrix or other Object is Symmetric (Hermitian)

Matrix Diagonals

‘Jitter’ (Add Noise) to Numbers

Is an Object Atomic or Recursive?

Return the Value of a Named Object

Reload Saved Datasets

Levels Attributes

Create a Matrix or a Vector

Extract a Function Specified by Name

Search Paths for Packages

Compute DLL for Native Interface Call

Lists -- Generic and Dotted Pairs

Arithmetic Mean

Environment Access

Drop Unused Levels from Factors

Ascertain File Accessibility

In-memory Compression and Decompression

List the Files in a Directory/Folder

Matrix Multiplication

Choose a File Interactively

(De)compress I/O Through Connections

The Names of an Object

Class for ‘no quote’ Printing of Character Strings

The Number of Arguments to a Function

Display Numbers in Hexadecimal

Make Syntactically Valid Names

Partial String Matching

Are we using R, rather than S?

Make Character Strings Unique

Test for an S4 object

Find Zeros of a Real or Complex Polynomial

Profile the Usage of Cons Cells

Text Representations of R Objects

Format P Values

Compute the Norm of a Matrix

Format Description Lists

Top Level Environment

Localization Information

Merge Two Data Frames

Express Table Entries as Fraction of Marginal Table

Get or Set Working Directory

Express File Paths in Canonical Form

Numeric Vectors

Not Yet Implemented Functions and Unused Arguments

Find Labels from Object

Loading DLLs from Packages

Hooks for Namespace Events

Namespace Internals

Push Text Back on to a Connection

The R License Terms

Generate Factor Levels

Parse Expressions

Argument Verification Using Partial Matching

Argument Matching

Encode in a Common Format

Conditional Element Selection

Concatenate Strings

Terminate an R Session

format(.) Information

Range of Values

Regular Expressions as used in R

Extract or Replace Matched Substrings

print.data.frame

Printing Data Frames

The (Storage) Mode of an Object

Remove Objects from a Specified Environment

Integer Vectors

Transfer Character Strings To and From Connections

Round / Truncate Data-Time Objects

getNativeSymbolInfo

Obtain a Description of one or more Native (C/Fortran) Symbols

Give Column Sums of a Matrix or Data Frame, Based on a Grouping Variable

Generate Regular Sequences of Dates

Read Text Lines from a Connection

Reverse Elements

Generate Regular Sequences of Times

Run Length Encoding

Translate Text Messages

Is an Object of Single Precision Type?

Test if an Object is Not Sorted

Convert Character Vector between Encodings

Get and Set Row Names for Data Frames

Setup Collation by ICU

Report Version of libcurl

Change the Print Mode to Invisible

Finite, Infinite and NaN Numbers

Names and Symbols

Loading/Attaching and Listing of Packages

Length of an Object

Lengths of List or Vector Elements

Give Search Path for R Objects

Use C-style String Formatting Commands

Sequence Generation

Query or Set Aspects of the Locale

Logical Vectors

Function Exit Code

References to Source Files and Code

Functions to Reposition Connections

Create A Vector of Sequences

Apply a Function to Multiple List or Vector Arguments

Lower and Upper Triangular Part of a Matrix

Options Settings

Functions to Access the Function Call Stack

Divide into Groups and Reassemble

Wrap Character Strings to Format Paragraphs

Read R Code from a File, a Connection or Expressions

Write Lines to a Connection

Compute table margin

Subsetting Vectors, Matrices and Data Frames

Extract Parts of a POSIXt or Date Object

Select One of a List of Alternatives

Diagnostic Messages

Auxiliary Function for Sorting and Ranking

The Number of Rows/Columns of an Array

Find Maximum Position in Matrix

Find Names of R System Files

Create Names for Temporary Files

Does a Formal Argument have a Value?

Count the Number of Characters (or Bytes or Width)

Solve a System of Equations

Sorting or Ordering Vectors

Text Connections

The Number of Levels of a Factor

Double Colon and Triple Colon Operators

numeric_version

Numeric Versions

Loading and Unloading Name Spaces

Namespace Reflection Support

Get and Print Call Stacks

Convert Positions in the Search Path to Environments

Trace Copying of Objects

Display Numbers in Octal

Remove names or dimnames

Expand File Paths

Functions to Get and Set Hooks for Load, Attach, Detach and Unload

Report Configuration Options for PCRE

Pretty Breakpoints

Ordering Permutation

Outer Product of Arrays

The QR Decomposition of a Matrix

Reconstruct the Q, R, or X Matrices from a QR Object

Default Printing

Running Time of R

Convert Integer Vectors to or from UTF-8-encoded Character Vectors

Print Matrices, Old-style

Convert to or from Raw Vectors

Transfer Binary Data To and From Connections

Raw Connections

Product of Vector Elements

Serialization Interface for Single Objects

Which indices are TRUE?

Replicate Elements of Vectors and Lists

Replace Values in a Vector

Set Environment Variables from a File

Miscellaneous Internal/Programming Utilities

Random Samples and Permutations

Recursively Apply a Function to a List

Read a Line from the Terminal

Stop Function Execution

Finalization of Objects

Ensure the Truth of R Expressions

Scaling and Centering of Matrix-like Objects

Send R Output to a File

Read Data Values

Quote Strings for Use in OS Shells

Slice Indexes in an Array

Split the Elements of a Character Vector

Simple Serialization Interface

Sum of Vector Elements

Set CPU and/or Elapsed Time Limits

Date-time Conversion Functions to and from Character

Object Summaries

Invoke a System Command

Extract or Replace A Slot

Tabulation for Vectors

Cross Tabulation and Table Creation

showConnections

Display Connections

Wait on Socket Connections

standardGeneric

Formal Method System -- Dispatching S4 Methods

Interactive Tracing and Debugging of Calls to a Function or Method

Extract Unique Elements

Does String Start or End With Another String?

Print Warning Messages

Rounding of Numbers: Zapping Small Ones to Zero

Numerical Characteristics of the Machine

Apply a Function Over a Ragged Array

Substituting and Quoting Expressions

Substrings of a Character Vector

Delete Files and Directories

Listing of Packages

Add or Remove a Top-Level Task Callback

Invoke a System Command

Singular Value Decomposition of a Matrix

Attribute Specification

Warning Messages

Trim Character Strings to Specified Display Widths

Convert Strings to Integers

Convert an R Object to a Character String

Try an Expression Allowing Error Recovery

Remove Leading/Trailing Whitespace

Parse and Evaluate Expressions from a File

Return both a Value and its Visibility

Write Data to a File

Repeat the Elements of a Character Vector

Check if a Character Vector is Validly Encoded

Transform an Object, for Example a Data Frame

The Type of an Object

Sweep out Array Summaries

Scripting Language Interface

Where is the Min() or Max() or first TRUE or FALSE ?

taskCallbackNames

Query the Names of the Current Internal Top-Level Task Callbacks

Matrix Transpose

taskCallbackManager

Create an R-level Task Callback Manager

Evaluate an Expression in a Data Environment

Relational Operators

Marking Objects as Deprecated