?ls and note the "pattern" argument.
e.g.
ls("package:base", pat =".*set.*")
Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 5:38 AM Greg Minshall <minsh...@umich.edu> wrote:
> hi.
>
> at the R prompt, i often hit, e.g., "data.table::<TAB>", to try to find
> a routine in a give package.
>
> however, some packages have a *lot* of functions (i'm looking at *you*,
> ggplot2...), so if i know the routine name starts with, e.g., "set", i
> can filter the returned list of routines by typing
> "data.table::set<TAB>" to get a list of completions.
>
> but, what if i know the name *contains*, but doesn't start with, "set"?
>
> is there an obvious way to find this? something like the unix-y
> : ls /bin | grep -i "set"
> ?
>
> cheers, Greg
>
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