Varun, I apologize. I hit send before completing.
Look at the source document in the link I provided. dbeta is part of the stats package, which is part of the core R system and I do not think it is available as a standalone package. The linked document provides instructions for finding base R compiled code. Mark R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D. msh...@txbiomed.org > On Jun 7, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Mark Sharp <msh...@txbiomed.org> wrote: > > Varun, > > If you type dbeta at the command line you get the R source, which in this > case tells you that the code is calling a compiled source. This is indicated > by the line <bytecode: 0x7fc3bb1b84e0> > > See the following. >> dbeta > function (x, shape1, shape2, ncp = 0, log = FALSE) > { > if (missing(ncp)) > .Call(C_dbeta, x, shape1, shape2, log) > else .Call(C_dnbeta, x, shape1, shape2, ncp, log) > } > <bytecode: 0x7fc3bb1b84e0> > <environment: namespace:stats> > > Compiled code in a package > > If you want to view compiled code in a package, you will need to > download/unpack the package source. The installed binaries are not > sufficient. A package's source code is available from the same CRAN (or CRAN > compatible) repository that the package was originally installed from. The > download.packages() function can get the package source for you. > > Extracted from > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19226816/how-can-i-view-the-source-code-for-a-function > > Mark > > > R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D. > msh...@txbiomed.org > > >> On Jun 7, 2015, at 4:31 AM, Varun Sinha <sinha.varun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to find the source code for dbeta function. >> >> I tried edit(dbeta) and this is what I got: >>> edit(dbeta) >> function (x, shape1, shape2, ncp = 0, log = FALSE) >> { >> if (missing(ncp)) >> .Call(C_dbeta, x, shape1, shape2, log) >> else .Call(C_dnbeta, x, shape1, shape2, ncp, log) >> } >> <environment: namespace:stats> >> >> It looks like it is calling calling C_dbeta, but I'm not sure. If it does, >> how do I find it's source code? >> >> Thank you! >> Varun >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.