Re: [R] Function to tell you how an object is put together

2007-12-10 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
urday, December 08, 2007 9:07 PM Subject: [R] Function to tell you how an object is put together > Question: Suppose I have an arbitrary object. Is there a function > which will > accept the object as an argument and sort of give the format of the > object, > how it is put toget

Re: [R] Function to tell you how an object is put together

2007-12-10 Thread Ingmar Visser
str goes a long way in doing that hth, Ingmar On 8 Dec 2007, at 21:07, Thomas L Jones, PhD wrote: > Question: Suppose I have an arbitrary object. Is there a function > which will > accept the object as an argument and sort of give the format of > the object, > how it is put together, etc.? T

[R] Function to tell you how an object is put together

2007-12-10 Thread Thomas L Jones, PhD
Question: Suppose I have an arbitrary object. Is there a function which will accept the object as an argument and sort of give the format of the object, how it is put together, etc.? The analysis would include the attributes and the names of the attributes. Also, things like whether or not the