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base (version 3.6.2)

The R Base Package

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Base R functions.

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3.6.2

License

Part of R 3.6.2

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

Last Published

December 12th, 2019

Functions in base (3.6.2)

Bessel Functions

Built-in Constants

Relational Operators

Inhibit Interpretation/Conversion of Objects

Report Information on C Stack Size and Usage

Modern Interfaces to C/C++ code

Arithmetic Operators

DateTimeClasses

Date-Time Classes

Environment Variables

Marking Objects as Deprecated

Extract.data.frame

Extract or Replace Parts of a Data Frame

Maxima and Minima

Foreign Function Interface

Hyperbolic Functions

Foreign-internal

Internal Versions of the Foreign Function Interface

Read or Set the Declared Encodings for a Character Vector

Marking Objects as Defunct

Extract or Replace Parts of an Object

Extract or Replace Parts of a Factor

Call an Internal Function

NumericConstants

Numeric Constants

Operators on the Date Class

Date-time Conversion Functions from Numeric Representations

Memory Limits in R

Memory Available for Data Storage

Value of Last Evaluated Expression

The Null Object

‘Not Available’ / Missing Values

User-supplied Random Number Generation

Initialization at Start of an R Session

Operator Syntax and Precedence

Approximate String Matching (Fuzzy Matching)

Random Number Generation

Return the R Home Directory

Reserved Words in R

Logarithms and Exponentials

Logical Operators

Utilities for Processing Rd Files

Miscellaneous Mathematical Functions

Recursive Calling

Get Environment Variables

Are Some Values True?

Get the Process ID of the R Session

Get Current Date and Time

Suspend Execution for a Time Interval

InternalMethods

Internal Generic Functions

Are All Values True?

Look Up a Primitive Function

Convert Object to Function

Split Array/Matrix By Its Margins

Manipulate File Paths

The R Base Package

Apply Functions Over Array Margins

Parentheses and Braces

Platform Specific Variables

Rounding of Numbers

Special Functions of Mathematics

Convert Numeric to Factor

Form Row and Column Sums and Means

Call With Current Continuation

Array Transposition

Row and Column Names

Delay Evaluation

Attach Set of R Objects to Search Path

Dimnames of an Object

Is an Object Defined?

Unevaluated Expressions

Create a Data Frame from All Combinations of Factor Variables

Execute a Function Call

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

Expression Deparsing

Object Attributes

Solve an Upper or Lower Triangular System

Wildcard Expansion on File Paths

Version Information

Extract System and User Information

Sys.setFileTime

Functions to Retrieve Values Supplied by Calls to the Browser

Character Translation and Casefolding

Defunct Functions in Package base

Returns the Names of All Built-in Objects

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

Abbreviate Strings

Test if Two Objects are (Nearly) Equal

Find All Names in an Expression

Read File Symbolic Links

Set or Unset Environment Variables

Trigonometric Functions

Find Full Paths to Executables

Date Conversion Functions to and from Character

Report Versions of Third-Party Software

Search for Masked Objects on the Search Path

Force Evaluation of an Argument

Assign a Value to a Name

Coerce to a Data Frame

Call a function with Some Arguments Forced

Date-time Conversion Functions

dataframeHelpers

Data Frame Auxiliary Functions

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

Assignment Operators

Read and Write Data in DCF Format

System Date and Time

Debug a Function

Time Intervals / Differences

Argument List of a Function

Object Attribute Lists

Vectorize a Scalar Function

Multi-way Arrays

On-demand Loading of Packages

Bin a Numeric Vector

Binding and Environment Locking, Active Bindings

Coerce to an Environment Object

Partial substitution in expressions

Bitwise Logical Operations

Internal Objects in Package base

base-deprecated

Deprecated Functions in Package base

Concatenate and Print

Combine R Objects by Rows or Columns

Report Capabilities of this Build of R

Apply a Function to a Data Frame Split by Factors

Combine Values into a Vector or List

Access to and Manipulation of the Body of a Function

Expand a String with Respect to a Target Table

R Project Contributors

Function Definition

Character Vectors

Partial String Matching

Complex Numbers and Basic Functionality

The Choleski Decomposition

Inverse from Choleski (or QR) Decomposition

Convert a Data Frame to a Numeric Matrix

Environment Browser

Condition Handling and Recovery

Common Higher-Order Functions in Functional Programming Languages

Extract Command Line Arguments

Retrieve Headers from URLs

Query or Set a "comment" Attribute

Convert a Date or Date-Time Object to a Factor

Lagged Differences

Options for Expression Deparsing

Identity Function to Suppress Checking

Matrix Diagonals

…, ..1, etc used in Functions

Spectral Decomposition of a Matrix

Encode Character Vector as for Printing

File Manipulation

Calculate the Determinant of a Matrix

Translate Text Messages

Torture Garbage Collector

Manipulation of Directories and File Permissions

Return the Value of a Named Object

Find Interval Numbers or Indices

Dimensions of an Object

Get or Set Working Directory

Finite, Infinite and NaN Numbers

Evaluate an (Unevaluated) Expression

Ascertain File Accessibility

Environment Access

(De)compress I/O Through Connections

Identity Function

Grouping Permutation

Double-Precision Vectors

Write an Object to a File or Recreate it

Matrix Crossproduct

Copyrights of Files Used to Build R

Cumulative Sums, Products, and Extremes

Access to and Manipulation of the Formal Arguments

Conditional Element Selection

Drop Redundant Extent Information

Detach Objects from the Search Path

Text Representations of R Objects

Lists of Open/Active Graphics Devices

Drop Unused Levels from Factors

Is an Object of Type (Primitive) Function?

Foreign Function Interface

Encode in a Common Format

getDLLRegisteredRoutines

Reflectance Information for C/Fortran routines in a DLL

Compute DLL for Native Interface Call

‘Jitter’ (Add Noise) to Numbers

Apply a Function Over Values in an Environment

Compute or Estimate the Condition Number of a Matrix

Extract File Information

Choose a File Interactively

Is an Object Atomic or Recursive?

Lazy Load a Database of R Objects

Determine Duplicate Elements

Is an Object of Single Precision Type?

Generate Factor Levels

Pattern Matching and Replacement

Find Labels from Object

Apply a Function over a List or Vector

Construct Path to File

Length of an Object

Is R Running Interactively?

List the Files in a Directory/Folder

From A List, Build or Add To an Environment

Display One or More Text Files

Argument Verification Using Partial Matching

format(.) Information

Format P Values

The R License Terms

Change the Print Mode to Invisible

Format Description Lists

Garbage Collection

Formatting Using C-style Formats

Report Time Spent in Garbage Collection

Lists -- Generic and Dotted Pairs

In-memory Compression and Decompression

Get DLLs Loaded in Current Session

Test if an Object is Not Sorted

Search Paths for Packages

Are we using R, rather than S?

Report Version of libcurl

getNativeSymbolInfo

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

Convert Character Vector between Encodings

Display Numbers in Hexadecimal

Query and Set Heap Size Limits

Make Syntactically Valid Names

Does a Formal Argument have a Value?

Diagnostic Messages

Class for ‘no quote’ Printing of Character Strings

Pattern Matching for Raw Vectors

Compute the Norm of a Matrix

Count the Number of Characters (or Bytes or Width)

Test Objects for Exact Equality

Setup Collation by ICU

Test for an S4 object

Levels Attributes

Lengths of List or Vector Elements

Logical Vectors

Lower and Upper Triangular Part of a Matrix

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

The Number of Levels of a Factor

S3 Group Generic Functions

Integer Vectors

Loading/Attaching and Listing of Packages

Compute table margin

Find Maximum Position in Matrix

Create a Matrix or a Vector

Loading DLLs from Packages

Argument Matching

Extract a Function Specified by Name

Arithmetic Mean

The Names of an Object

Compute Factor Interactions

Double Colon and Triple Colon Operators

The Number of Rows/Columns of an Array

The Number of Arguments to a Function

Is an Object a Language Object?

Loading and Unloading Name Spaces

Is an Object ‘internally classed’?

Profile the Usage of Cons Cells

Merge Two Data Frames

Localization Information

Reload Saved Datasets

Kronecker Products on Arrays

The (Storage) Mode of an Object

Query or Set Aspects of the Locale

Names and Symbols

Make Character Strings Unique

Namespace Reflection Support

Apply a Function to Multiple List or Vector Arguments

Hooks for Namespace Events

Namespace Internals

Matrix Multiplication

Not Yet Implemented Functions and Unused Arguments

Express File Paths in Canonical Form

Numeric Vectors

Top Level Environment

Ordering Permutation

Outer Product of Arrays

numeric_version

Numeric Versions

Parse R Expressions

Concatenate Strings

Display Numbers in Octal

print.data.frame

Printing Data Frames

Product of Vector Elements

Running Time of R

Partial String Matching

Find Zeros of a Real or Complex Polynomial

Function Exit Code

Options Settings

The QR Decomposition of a Matrix

Convert Positions in the Search Path to Environments

Pretty Breakpoints

Raw Connections

Read a Line from the Terminal

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

Express Table Entries as Fraction of Marginal Table

Report Configuration Options for PCRE

Expand File Paths

Terminate an R Session

Range of Values

Serialization Interface for Single Objects

Set Environment Variables from a File

Run Length Encoding

Reverse Elements

Default Printing

Print Matrices, Old-style

Push Text Back on to a Connection

showConnections

Display Connections

Functions to Reposition Connections

Give Search Path for R Objects

Finalization of Objects

Transfer Character Strings To and From Connections

Read Text Lines from a Connection

Recursively Apply a Function to a List

Replicate Elements of Vectors and Lists

Replace Values in a Vector

Remove Objects from a Specified Environment

Get and Set Row Names for Data Frames

Singular Value Decomposition of a Matrix

Round / Truncate Data-Time Objects

Convert to or from Raw Vectors

Transfer Binary Data To and From Connections

Generate Regular Sequences of Dates

Generate Regular Sequences of Times

Use C-style String Formatting Commands

Send R Output to a File

Random Samples and Permutations

Solve a System of Equations

Read Data Values

Sorting or Ordering Vectors

Repeat the Elements of a Character Vector

Scaling and Centering of Matrix-like Objects

Date-time Conversion Functions to and from Character

Regular Expressions as used in R

Wrap Character Strings to Format Paragraphs

Sweep out Array Summaries

Slice Indexes in an Array

Extract or Replace Matched Substrings

Simple Serialization Interface

Set CPU and/or Elapsed Time Limits

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

Create Names for Temporary Files

Subsetting Vectors, Matrices and Data Frames

Quote Strings for Use in OS Shells

Parse and Evaluate Expressions from a File

Does String Start or End With Another String?

standardGeneric

Formal Method System -- Dispatching S4 Methods

Sum of Vector Elements

Read R Code from a File, a Connection or Expressions

Transform an Object, for Example a Data Frame

Divide into Groups and Reassemble

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

Text Connections

Sequence Generation

Extract or Replace A Slot

Wait on Socket Connections

Create A Vector of Sequences

Stop Function Execution

Substituting and Quoting Expressions

References to Source Files and Code

Split the Elements of a Character Vector

Numerical Characteristics of the Machine

Object Summaries

Substrings of a Character Vector

Remove Leading/Trailing Whitespace

Functions to Access the Function Call Stack

Convert Strings to Integers

Add or Remove a Top-Level Task Callback

Apply a Function Over a Ragged Array

Select One of a List of Alternatives

taskCallbackNames

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

Trim Character Strings to Specified Display Widths

Invoke a System Command

Ensure the Truth of R Expressions

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

Matrix Transpose

Attribute Specification

Invoke a System Command

Try an Expression Allowing Error Recovery

Write Data to a File

Return both a Value and its Visibility

taskCallbackManager

Create an R-level Task Callback Manager

Scripting Language Interface

Find Names of R System Files

Interactive Tracing and Debugging of Calls to a Function or Method

Convert an R Object to a Character String

Extract Parts of a POSIXt or Date Object

Delete Files and Directories

Extract Unique Elements

Rounding of Numbers: Zapping Small Ones to Zero

Which indices are TRUE?

Listing of Packages

The Type of an Object

Miscellaneous Internal/Programming Utilities

Tabulation for Vectors

Check if a Character Vector is Validly Encoded

Cross Tabulation and Table Creation

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

Evaluate an Expression in a Data Environment

Trace Copying of Objects

Get and Print Call Stacks

Remove names or dimnames

Write Lines to a Connection

Warning Messages

Print Warning Messages

Auxiliary Function for Sorting and Ranking