Hello:

How can one get the number of functions and data sets in a package?

I've written a function "PackageSum2" to get an extended package summary for an installed package. I get much of what I want from the object returned by "help(package=pkgName)". For example, "help(pac=...)$info[[1]]" is a character vector giving author, maintainer, date built, etc. "help(pac=...)$info[[2]]" is a character vector with at least one row for each help page; I can get the number of help pages by subtracting the number starting with blank (" ") from the length. And "help(pac=...)$info[[3]]" is a character matrix describing the vignettes.

Is there a reasonably easy way to get numbers of (a) functions and (b) data sets in the package?

I want this for a the next version of "PackageSum2" in the "RSiteSearch" package. Based partly on previous input from this list, the package is being renamed to "sos" with the primary "RSiteSearch.function" function being renamed to "findFn". You can install the current development version via 'install.packages("sos", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org";)'.

     Thanks,
     Spencer

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