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base (version 3.0.3)

The R Base Package

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Base R functions

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3.0.3

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Part of R 3.0.3

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

Last Published

December 12th, 2019

Functions in base (3.0.3)

Abbreviate Strings

Apply Functions Over Array Margins

Are Some Values True?

Find All Names in an Expression

Test if Two Objects are (Nearly) Equal

Are All Values True?

Array Transposition

Argument List of a Function

Approximate String Matching (Fuzzy Matching)

Date-time Conversion Functions

Coerce to a Data Frame

Inhibit Interpretation/Conversion of Objects

Convert Object to Function

Date Conversion Functions to and from Character

Coerce to an Environment Object

Assignment Operators

Assign a Value to a Name

Multi-way Arrays

Arithmetic Operators

Solve an Upper or Lower Triangular System

Manipulate File Paths

base-deprecated

Deprecated Functions in Package base

The R Base Package

Internal Objects in Package base

Object Attribute Lists

On-demand Loading of Packages

Object Attributes

Defunct Functions in Package base

Attach Set of R Objects to Search Path

Bitwise Logical Operations

Binding and Environment Locking, Active Bindings

Functions to Retrieve Values Supplied by Calls to the Browser

Partial substitution in expressions

Bin a Numeric Vector

Returns the Names of All Built-in Objects

Access to and Manipulation of the Body of a Function

Apply a Function to a Data Frame Split by Factors

Environment Browser

Bessel Functions

Combine Values into a Vector or List

Report Capabilities of this Build of R

Expand a String with Respect to a Target Table

Combine R Objects by Rows or Columns

Concatenate and Print

Call With Current Continuation

Character Vectors

Modern Interfaces to C/C++ code

Partial String Matching

Extract Command Line Arguments

Query or Set a "comment" Attribute

Inverse from Choleski (or QR) Decomposition

Character Translation and Casefolding

Form Row and Column Sums and Means

The Choleski Decomposition

Row and Column Names

Copyrights of Files Used to Build R

R Project Contributors

Built-in Constants

Report Information on C Stack Size and Usage

Matrix Crossproduct

Complex Vectors

Relational Operators

Search for Masked Objects on the Search Path

Condition Handling and Recovery

Detach Objects from the Search Path

Lists of Open/Active Graphics Devices

Cumulative Sums, Products, and Extremes

Drop Redundant Extent Information

Convert Numeric to Factor

Matrix Diagonals

Read or Set the Declared Encodings for a Character Vector

Lagged Differences

Environment Access

Choose a File Interactively

Ascertain File Accessibility

Foreign-internal

Internal Versions of the Foreign Function Interface

Text Representations of R Objects

Foreign Function Interface

Maxima and Minima

Determine Duplicate Elements

Manipulaton of Directories and File Permissions

Format Description Lists

Formatting Using C-style Formats

Compute DLL for Native Interface Call

Generate Factor Levels

Common Higher-Order Functions in Functional Programming Languages

Function Definition

Pattern Matching and Replacement

Conditional Element Selection

Identity Function

Finite, Infinite and NaN Numbers

Convert a Date or Date-Time Object to a Factor

Marking Objects as Defunct

Delay Evaluation

Write an Object to a File or Recreate it

Double-Precision Vectors

Foreign Function Interface

Apply a Function Over Values in an Environment

Convert a Data Frame to a Numeric Matrix

Dimnames of an Object

Calculate the Determinant of a Matrix

Marking Objects as Deprecated

Execute a Function Call

Create a Data Frame from All Combinations of Factors

Is an Object Defined?

Setup Collation by ICU

getDLLRegisteredRoutines

Reflectance Information for C/Fortran routines in a DLL

Test Objects for Exact Equality

Integer Vectors

Compute Factor Interactions

Compute or Estimate the Condition Number of a Matrix

System Date and Time

dataframeHelpers

Data Frame Auxiliary Functions

Kronecker Products on Arrays

Expression Deparsing

Options for Expression Deparsing

Dimensions of an Object

Spectral Decomposition of a Matrix

DateTimeClasses

Date-Time Classes

Environment Variables

Read and Write Data in DCF Format

Debug a Function

Evaluate an (Unevaluated) Expression

Extract File Information

Construct Path to File

Encode in a Common Format

Format P Values

Hyperbolic Functions

Convert Character Vector between Encodings

Test if a Matrix or other Object is Symmetric

Change the Print Mode to Invisible

InternalMethods

Internal Generic Functions

‘Jitter’ (Add Noise) to Numbers

Lazy Load a Database of R Objects

Value of Last Evaluated Expression

Is an Object of Type (Primitive) Function?

The R License Terms

List the Files in a Directory/Folder

Make Syntactically Valid Names

In-memory Compression and Decompression

Make Character Strings Unique

Merge Two Data Frames

Memory Limits in R

Encode Character Vector as for Printing

Find Interval Numbers or Indices

Extract or Replace Parts of a Factor

Extract or Replace Parts of an Object

Force Evaluation of an Argument

Test if an Object is Not Sorted

Get DLLs Loaded in Current Session

getNativeSymbolInfo

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

Date-time Conversion Functions from Numeric Representations

Loading DLLs from Packages

Loading/Attaching and Listing of Packages

Logarithms and Exponentials

Logical Operators

Does a Formal Argument have a Value?

The Number of Rows/Columns of an Array

The (Storage) Mode of an Object

Platform Specific Variables

Double Colon and Triple Colon Operators

Partial String Matching

Localization Information

Logical Vectors

Argument Matching

Find Maximum Position in Matrix

Extract a Function Specified by Name

Top Level Environment

Arithmetic Mean

Diagnostic Messages

The Null Object

Hooks for Namespace Events

Namespace Internals

Parentheses and Braces

Parse Expressions

Push Text Back on to a Connection

The QR Decomposition of a Matrix

Transfer Binary Data To and From Connections

Transfer Character Strings To and From Connections

Reverse Elements

Reload Saved Datasets

Query or Set Aspects of the Locale

Lower and Upper Triangular Part of a Matrix

Matrix Multiplication

The Names of an Object

Names and Symbols

Ordering Permutation

Namespace Reflection Support

Loading and Unloading Name Spaces

Outer Product of Arrays

print.data.frame

Printing Data Frames

Default Printing

Convert to or from Raw Vectors

Utilities for Processing Rd Files

Read a Line from the Terminal

Read Text Lines from a Connection

Give Search Path for R Objects

Get and Set Row Names for Data Frames

Functions to Reposition Connections

Solve a System of Equations

Sorting or Ordering Vectors

Special Functions of Mathematics

Divide into Groups and Reassemble

Substrings of a Character Vector

Get the Process ID of the R Session

Get Environment Variables

Sum of Vector Elements

Get Current Date and Time

Parse and Evaluate Expressions from a File

Convert to or from UTF-8-encoded Character Vectors

Write Data to a File

Display Numbers in Octal

NumericConstants

Numeric Constants

Write Lines to a Connection

Find Zeros of a Real or Complex Polynomial

Product of Vector Elements

Convert Positions in the Search Path to Environments

Express Table Entries as Fraction of Marginal Table

Raw Connections

Recursive Calling

Random Number Generation

Print Matrices, Old-style

Running Time of R

Range of Values

Serialization Interface for Single Objects

Generate Regular Sequences of Dates

Set Environment Variables from a File

Sequence Generation

Send R Output to a File

Slice Indexes in an Array

Initialization at Start of an R Session

Stop Function Execution

Wrap Character Strings to Format Paragraphs

Attribute Specification

Operator Syntax and Precedence

Select One of a List of Alternatives

Invoke a System Command

taskCallbackNames

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

Return the R Home Directory

Generate Regular Sequences of Times

Create A Vector of Sequences

showConnections

Display Connections

Set CPU and/or Elapsed Time Limits

Substituting and Quoting Expressions

Subsetting Vectors, Matrices and Data Frames

Matrix Transpose

Cross Tabulation and Table Creation

Access to and Manipulation of the Formal Arguments

format(.) Information

Get or Set Working Directory

Translate Text Messages

(De)compress I/O Through Connections

Display Numbers in Hexadecimal

Is an Object ‘internally classed’?

Is an Object a Language Object?

Are we using R, rather than S?

Test for an S4 object

Finalization of Objects

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

Simple Serialization Interface

standardGeneric

Formal Method System -- Dispatching S4 Methods

References to source files

Quote Strings for Use in OS Shells

Object Summaries

Wildcard Expansion on File Paths

Sweep out Array Summaries

Find Full Paths to Executables

Extract System and User Information

Add or Remove a Top-Level Task Callback

Find Names of R System Files

Tabulation for Vectors

Trace Copying of Objects

Print Call Stacks

taskCallbackManager

Create an R-level Task Callback Manager

Extract Unique Elements

Apply a Function Over a Ragged Array

Delete Files and Directories

Extract Parts of a POSIXt or Date Object

Evaluate an Expression in a Data Environment

Which indices are TRUE?

Unevaluated Expressions

Return both a value and its visibility

Display One or More Files

Extract.data.frame

Extract or Replace Parts of a Data Frame

File Manipulation

Garbage Collection

Report Time Spent in Garbage Collection

Torture Garbage Collector

Return the Value of a Named Object

Pattern Matching for Raw Vectors

Find Labels from Object

S3 Group Generic Functions

Apply a Function over a List or Vector

Create a Matrix or a Vector

Argument Verification Using Partial Matching

Memory Available for Data Storage

Profile the Usage of Cons Cells

The Number of Levels of a Factor

Class for ‘no quote’ Printing of Character Strings

Function Exit Code

Operators on the Date Class

Pretty Breakpoints

Look Up a Primitive Function

Terminate an R Session

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

Replace Values in a Vector

Reserved Words in R

Rounding of Numbers

Extract or Replace A Slot

Round / Truncate Data-Time Objects

Wait on Socket Connections

Use C-style String Formatting Commands

Trim Character Strings to Specified Display Widths

Convert Strings to Integers

Read File Symbolic Links

Set or Unset Environment Variables

Remove names or dimnames

Is R Running Interactively?

Is an Object of Single Precision Type?

Is an Object Atomic or Recursive?

Call an Internal Function

Levels Attributes

Search Paths for Packages

Lists -- Generic and Dotted Pairs

From A List, Build or Add To an Environment

Compute table margin

Apply a Function to Multiple List or Vector Arguments

Miscellaneous Mathematical Functions

Count the Number of Characters (or Bytes or Width)

The Number of Arguments to a Function

Express File Paths in Canonical Form

Not Yet Implemented Functions and Unused Arguments

numeric_version

Numeric Versions

Numeric Vectors

Expand File Paths

Concatenate Strings

User-supplied Random Number Generation

Recursively Apply a Function to a List

Extract or Replace Matched Substrings

Replicate Elements of Vectors and Lists

Run Length Encoding

Remove Objects from a Specified Environment

Read Data Values

Scaling and Centering of Matrix-like Objects

Vectorize a Scalar Function

Version Information

Miscellaneous Internal/Programming Utilities

Scripting Language Interface

Ensure the Truth of R Expressions

Split the Elements of a Character Vector

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

Functions to Access the Function Call Stack

Sys.setFileTime

Suspend Execution for a Time Interval

Convert an R Object to a Character String

Interactive Tracing and Debugging of Calls to a Function or Method

Transform an Object, for Example a Data Frame

Trigonometric Functions

Warning Messages

Print Warning Messages

Numerical Characteristics of the Machine

Listing of Packages

Try an Expression Allowing Error Recovery

Text Connections

The Type of an Object

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

Rounding of Numbers

Auxiliary Function for Sorting and Ranking