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Index to (some) R functions

abbreviate
abline
acf
addmargins
append
apply
apropos
args Show the argument names and default values of a function or a primitive.
as.Date Converts from a character representation of a date to an object whose class is Date.
class is Date.
as.integer
as.factor
as.vector
asNamespace
as.name is identical to as.symbol.
as.numeric
as.POSIXct
as.POSIXlt
as.symbol is identical to as.name
assign
as.table
attach
attr
attributes
barplot
baseenv
body
boxplot
bquote
browser can be used for debugging purposes.
c construcs a vector.
casefold converts a character vector to upper or lower case, depending on the value of the parameter upper.
cat
cbind
character
charToRaw
chartr
choose
chooseCRANmirror
citation
class
col2rgb
colnames
colorRampPalette
colors
combn
contour
coplot
cummax
cumsum
curve
cut
data
data.frame
dbinom
decompose
demo runs some R scripts to demonstrate R functionality.
density
deparse
detach
dev.new
dev.off
dev.size reports the dimensions of the current device.
dget
diag
diff
difftime
dim
dimnames
dist
do.call can be used to construct a function call with dynamic arguments.
dotchart
download.file to download a file from the internet.
dput dumps an object as R code.
dump
Encoding
environment
emptyenv
eval
expand.grid
expression
factor
factorial
file
file.choose
file.edit to edit or create a file.
file.exists
file.path
file.show
filled.contour
development/languages/R/functions/findInterval[findInterval] searches in a vector of »ranges« for the interval that a given value belongs to.
fitted
for
format
formatC
ftable
getOption
getwd
gray
gregexpr
grep search for regular expressions
gl creates factors.
globalenv
grid
gsub and sub replace substrings that match a regular expressions.
hclust
head
heatmap
help gets help on an R function.
help.search
help.start opens the documentation's table of (html) contents in a webserver with links to all the installed documentation.
hist
history
iconvlist
identical tests if two objects are exactly equal.
identify
ifelse
image
install.packages
installed.packages
interactive
intersect
IQR
isatty
is.atomic
is.element
is.factor
is.integer tests if an object is of type integer.
is.list
is.matrix
development/languages/R/functions/is/name[is.name] is identical to is.symbol.
is.numeric
is.symbol is identical to is.name.
ISOdate
ISOdatetime
is.unsorted
is.vector to test if an object is an (atomic) vector or a list that has no attributes set except names.
jitter
kmeans
lapply Applies a function to each element of a vector.
layout
legend
length
levels
.libPaths
library
lines
list
list.files
lm
load
log
lower.tri
ls
ls.str
mapply
margin.table
match
matplot
matrix
max
mean
median
message
methods
min
missing determines if an argument was provided a value when a function was called.
mode
names
nchar to return the length of a string or lengths of a string vector.
ncol
new.env creates a new environment.
noquote
nrow
numeric
objects
on.exit records a function to be called when the current function exits.
optimize
options
order
outer
pacf
pairs
par
parse
paste and paste0 to concatenate strings (paste with, paste0 without spaces between them).
pbinom
pdf
persp
pie
plot
pmax
pmin
png
points
polygon
predict
print
prop.table
quit terminates the current R session
qqnorm
qqplot
quantile
quote
R.home
rainbow
range
rank
rapply
rbind
rbinom
readRDS
read.csv
read.delim
read.fwf
read.table
readline reads a line from the terminal (= stdin?)
readLines read (possibly unformatted) text line by line
rep
rep.len
replicate
require
resid
rev
rgamma
rgb
rm
rnorm
round
rownames
rowSums
rpois
RSiteSearch
runif
sample
sapply
save
save.image
scan
scatter.smooth
sd
search
segments
setNames
seq
seq_along
seq_len
sessionInfo
setdiff
setequal
set.seed
setwd
solve
sort
source
split
sprintf is a wrapper around the C function printf.
stack
stem
stopifnot
str displays the internal structure of an R object.
strftime
stripchart
strptime
strsplit
structure
sub and gsub replace substrings that match a regular expressions.
subset
substr
substring
substitute
sum
summary
suppressPackageStartupMessages
Sys.Date
Sys.getenv
Sys.setlocale
Sys.sleep
system.time
Sys.time
t
ts
table
tabulate
tail
tapply
tempfile
text
textConnection read data within R source code as though it was in an external text file.
tolower converts a character vector to lower case.
toString
development/languages/R/functions/tolower-toupper[toupper] converts a character vector to upper case.
tryCatch to catch calls to stop()
t.test
typeof to determine the internal type or storage mode of an object.
unclass
union
unique
unix.time
unlist can be used to turn a list into a vector.
unname
upper.tri
var
vector
Vectorize
View
vignette
weekdays
which
which.min
which.max
wireframe
with
within
write
writeLines
writeRDS
write.csv
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See also

apply functions
R functions: probabilty distributions
String related functions (of which R functions: regular expressions are some).
R functions for graphics
R functions for colors
polymorphic functions

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