getAnywhere {utils} | R Documentation

## Retrieve an R Object, Including from a Namespace

### Description

This functions locates all objects with name matching its argument, whether visible on the search path, registered as an S3 method or in a namespace but not exported.

### Usage

    getAnywhere(x)

### Arguments

`x` | a character string or name.

### Details

The function looks at all loaded namespaces, whether or not they are associated with a package on the search list.

Where functions are found as an S3 method, an attempt is made to find which namespace registered them. This may not be correct, especially if a namespace is unloaded.

### Value

An object of class `"getAnywhere"`. This is a list with components

`name` | the name searched for.
`objs` | a list of objects found
`where` | a character vector explaining where the object(s) were found
`visible` | logical: is the object visible
`dups` | logical: is the object identical to one earlier in the list.

Normally the structure will be hidden by the `print` method. There is a `[` method to extract one or more of the objects found.

### See Also

`get`, `getFromNamespace`

### Examples

    getAnywhere("format.dist")
    getAnywhere("simpleLoess") # not exported from stats

[Package utils version 2.3.1 Index]