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base (version 3.2.5)

The R Base Package

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Base R functions.

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3.2.5

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Part of R 3.2.5

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

Last Published

December 12th, 2019

Functions in base (3.2.5)

Find All Names in an Expression

Array Transposition

Test if Two Objects are (Nearly) Equal

Apply Functions Over Array Margins

Abbreviate Strings

Are Some Values True?

Are All Values True?

Argument List of a Function

Approximate String Matching (Fuzzy Matching)

Assign a Value to a Name

Coerce to a Data Frame

Date Conversion Functions to and from Character

Convert Object to Function

Coerce to an Environment Object

Multi-way Arrays

Assignment Operators

Date-time Conversion Functions

Inhibit Interpretation/Conversion of Objects

Arithmetic Operators

Object Attribute Lists

Solve an Upper or Lower Triangular System

On-demand Loading of Packages

The R Base Package

Internal Objects in Package base

base-deprecated

Deprecated Functions in Package base

Manipulate File Paths

Attach Set of R Objects to Search Path

Object Attributes

Defunct Functions in Package base

Bessel Functions

Binding and Environment Locking, Active Bindings

Apply a Function to a Data Frame Split by Factors

Bitwise Logical Operations

Returns the Names of All Built-in Objects

Functions to Retrieve Values Supplied by Calls to the Browser

Bin a Numeric Vector

Partial substitution in expressions

Access to and Manipulation of the Body of a Function

Environment Browser

Combine Values into a Vector or List

Character Vectors

Report Capabilities of this Build of R

Combine R Objects by Rows or Columns

Call With Current Continuation

Concatenate and Print

Expand a String with Respect to a Target Table

Modern Interfaces to C/C++ code

Partial String Matching

Form Row and Column Sums and Means

Row and Column Names

Extract Command Line Arguments

Inverse from Choleski (or QR) Decomposition

Character Translation and Casefolding

Query or Set a "comment" Attribute

The Choleski Decomposition

Copyrights of Files Used to Build R

Matrix Crossproduct

Search for Masked Objects on the Search Path

Condition Handling and Recovery

Relational Operators

Built-in Constants

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

R Project Contributors

Complex Vectors

Convert Numeric to Factor

Convert a Date or Date-Time Object to a Factor

dataframeHelpers

Data Frame Auxiliary Functions

Convert a Data Frame to a Numeric Matrix

System Date and Time

Double-Precision Vectors

Identity Function to Suppress Checking

Text Representations of R Objects

Delay Evaluation

Expression Deparsing

Matrix Diagonals

Lists of Open/Active Graphics Devices

Create a Data Frame from All Combinations of Factors

Foreign Function Interface

Determine Duplicate Elements

Unevaluated Expressions

Report Information on C Stack Size and Usage

Cumulative Sums, Products, and Extremes

Marking Objects as Deprecated

Options for Expression Deparsing

Lagged Differences

Extract or Replace Parts of an Object

Apply a Function Over Values in an Environment

Spectral Decomposition of a Matrix

Maxima and Minima

Dimensions of an Object

Execute a Function Call

Encode Character Vector as for Printing

Read or Set the Declared Encodings for a Character Vector

Extract.data.frame

Extract or Replace Parts of a Data Frame

Extract or Replace Parts of a Factor

Foreign-internal

Internal Versions of the Foreign Function Interface

Call a function with Some Arguments Forced

Return the Value of a Named Object

Report Versions of Third-Party Software

Compute DLL for Native Interface Call

(De)compress I/O Through Connections

‘Jitter’ (Add Noise) to Numbers

Date-time Conversion Functions from Numeric Representations

Are we using R, rather than S?

Display Numbers in Hexadecimal

Compute or Estimate the Condition Number of a Matrix

From A List, Build or Add To an Environment

Report Version of libcurl

Retrieve Headers from URLs

Debug a Function

Write an Object to a File or Recreate it

Marking Objects as Defunct

Drop Redundant Extent Information

Environment Access

Ascertain File Accessibility

Environment Variables

Choose a File Interactively

S3 Group Generic Functions

Pattern Matching for Raw Vectors

Conditional Element Selection

Identity Function

Is an Object Atomic or Recursive?

Is an Object of Single Precision Type?

DateTimeClasses

Date-Time Classes

Detach Objects from the Search Path

Calculate the Determinant of a Matrix

Read and Write Data in DCF Format

Is an Object Defined?

Evaluate an (Unevaluated) Expression

Manipulaton of Directories and File Permissions

Access to and Manipulation of the Formal Arguments

Foreign Function Interface

Report Time Spent in Garbage Collection

Torture Garbage Collector

Pattern Matching and Replacement

Generate Factor Levels

Integer Vectors

Compute Factor Interactions

Lazy Load a Database of R Objects

Length of an Object

Loading/Attaching and Listing of Packages

The R License Terms

Logical Operators

Logical Vectors

Find Maximum Position in Matrix

Class for ‘no quote’ Printing of Character Strings

Compute the Norm of a Matrix

numeric_version

Numeric Versions

Numeric Vectors

Partial String Matching

Find Zeros of a Real or Complex Polynomial

Transfer Binary Data To and From Connections

Utilities for Processing Rd Files

User-supplied Random Number Generation

Recursive Calling

Set Environment Variables from a File

Display One or More Text Files

File Manipulation

Format Description Lists

Force Evaluation of an Argument

Find Interval Numbers or Indices

Translate Text Messages

Function Definition

InternalMethods

Internal Generic Functions

Get or Set Working Directory

Random Samples and Permutations

Substituting and Quoting Expressions

Simple Serialization Interface

Substrings of a Character Vector

Operator Syntax and Precedence

Get Environment Variables

Formatting Using C-style Formats

Format P Values

getDLLRegisteredRoutines

Reflectance Information for C/Fortran routines in a DLL

Call an Internal Function

Hyperbolic Functions

getNativeSymbolInfo

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

Convert Character Vector between Encodings

Is R Running Interactively?

Is an Object of Type (Primitive) Function?

Finite, Infinite and NaN Numbers

Reload Saved Datasets

Lower and Upper Triangular Part of a Matrix

Argument Matching

Argument Verification Using Partial Matching

Double Colon and Triple Colon Operators

The Number of Rows/Columns of an Array

In-memory Compression and Decompression

Arithmetic Mean

Is an Object a Language Object?

Change the Print Mode to Invisible

NumericConstants

Numeric Constants

Is an Object ‘internally classed’?

List the Files in a Directory/Folder

Lists -- Generic and Dotted Pairs

Compute table margin

Make Syntactically Valid Names

Profile the Usage of Cons Cells

Create a Matrix or a Vector

Merge Two Data Frames

The Names of an Object

The Number of Arguments to a Function

Concatenate Strings

Round / Truncate Data-Time Objects

Expand File Paths

Slice Indexes in an Array

Send R Output to a File

Split the Elements of a Character Vector

Find Labels from Object

Lengths of List or Vector Elements

Levels Attributes

Apply a Function to Multiple List or Vector Arguments

Make Character Strings Unique

Extract a Function Specified by Name

Does a Formal Argument have a Value?

Diagnostic Messages

Extract File Information

format(.) Information

Construct Path to File

Encode in a Common Format

Common Higher-Order Functions in Functional Programming Languages

Garbage Collection

Test Objects for Exact Equality

Setup Collation by ICU

Test if a Matrix or other Object is Symmetric

Test for an S4 object

Display Numbers in Octal

Ordering Permutation

Outer Product of Arrays

Default Printing

The QR Decomposition of a Matrix

Push Text Back on to a Connection

Transfer Character Strings To and From Connections

Read a Line from the Terminal

Reserved Words in R

Apply a Function over a List or Vector

Value of Last Evaluated Expression

Query or Set Aspects of the Locale

Logarithms and Exponentials

Miscellaneous Mathematical Functions

Matrix Multiplication

Top Level Environment

Memory Available for Data Storage

Memory Limits in R

Extract System and User Information

The Null Object

Convert Strings to Integers

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

Create Names for Temporary Files

Print Call Stacks

Trace Copying of Objects

Text Connections

Which indices are TRUE?

Warning Messages

Version Information

Function Exit Code

Operators on the Date Class

Look Up a Primitive Function

print.data.frame

Printing Data Frames

Random Number Generation

Range of Values

Recursively Apply a Function to a List

Run Length Encoding

Return the R Home Directory

Localization Information

Kronecker Products on Arrays

Search Paths for Packages

The (Storage) Mode of an Object

Loading DLLs from Packages

Not Yet Implemented Functions and Unused Arguments

Express File Paths in Canonical Form

Names and Symbols

Invoke a System Command

Matrix Transpose

Namespace Reflection Support

Loading and Unloading Name Spaces

Convert an R Object to a Character String

Interactive Tracing and Debugging of Calls to a Function or Method

Delete Files and Directories

Evaluate an Expression in a Data Environment

Count the Number of Characters (or Bytes or Width)

Return both a value and its visibility

Hooks for Namespace Events

The Number of Levels of a Factor

Namespace Internals

Report Configuration Options for PCRE

Platform Specific Variables

Product of Vector Elements

Running Time of R

Print Matrices, Old-style

Express Table Entries as Fraction of Marginal Table

Finalization of Objects

Raw Connections

Extract or Replace Matched Substrings

Scaling and Centering of Matrix-like Objects

Read Data Values

Give Search Path for R Objects

Functions to Reposition Connections

Remove Objects from a Specified Environment

Reverse Elements

Read R Code from a File or a Connection

Rounding of Numbers

Create A Vector of Sequences

Generate Regular Sequences of Times

Extract or Replace A Slot

Wait on Socket Connections

Generate Regular Sequences of Dates

Get and Set Row Names for Data Frames

References to source files

Trim Character Strings to Specified Display Widths

Solve a System of Equations

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

Sorting or Ordering Vectors

Sequence Generation

Ensure the Truth of R Expressions

Stop Function Execution

Special Functions of Mathematics

Sum of Vector Elements

Divide into Groups and Reassemble

Object Summaries

Use C-style String Formatting Commands

Select One of a List of Alternatives

Sweep out Array Summaries

Functions to Access the Function Call Stack

Parse and Evaluate Expressions from a File

Read File Symbolic Links

Suspend Execution for a Time Interval

Set or Unset Environment Variables

Transform an Object, for Example a Data Frame

Attribute Specification

Cross Tabulation and Table Creation

Sys.setFileTime

Tabulation for Vectors

Scripting Language Interface

Vectorize a Scalar Function

Wildcard Expansion on File Paths

Get the Process ID of the R Session

Get Current Date and Time

Find Full Paths to Executables

taskCallbackManager

Create an R-level Task Callback Manager

taskCallbackNames

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

The Type of an Object

Extract Unique Elements

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

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

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

Print Warning Messages

Trigonometric Functions

Miscellaneous Internal/Programming Utilities

Extract Parts of a POSIXt or Date Object

Write Data to a File

Convert Positions in the Search Path to Environments

Parentheses and Braces

Parse Expressions

Write Lines to a Connection

Pretty Breakpoints

Read Text Lines from a Connection

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

Terminate an R Session

Replicate Elements of Vectors and Lists

Serialization Interface for Single Objects

Replace Values in a Vector

Set CPU and/or Elapsed Time Limits

showConnections

Display Connections

Quote Strings for Use in OS Shells

Initialization at Start of an R Session

standardGeneric

Formal Method System -- Dispatching S4 Methods

Wrap Character Strings to Format Paragraphs

Find Names of R System Files

Subsetting Vectors, Matrices and Data Frames

Apply a Function Over a Ragged Array

Numerical Characteristics of the Machine

Listing of Packages

Add or Remove a Top-Level Task Callback

Try an Expression Allowing Error Recovery

Remove Leading/Trailing Whitespace

Remove names or dimnames

Auxiliary Function for Sorting and Ranking

Rounding of Numbers