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sleuth

Generalized version of find

Description

Looks for objects that regex-match pattern, in all attached workspaces (as per search()) and any maintained packages (see maintain.packages).

Usage

sleuth(pattern, ...)

Arguments

`pattern`	regex
`...`	other args to `grep`, e.g. `perl=TRUE` or `ignore.case=TRUE`

Value

A list of environments containing one or more matching objects, with the object names returned as a character vector within each list element.

Examples

sleuth( '^rm')
# On my setup, that currently gives:
#$ROOT
#[1] "rmsrc"
#
#$`package:stats`
#[1] "rmultinom"
#
#$`package:base`
#[1] "rm"
#
#$mvbutils
#[1] "rm.pkg"
#
#$handy2
#[1] "rmultinom"
#

mvbutils

Workspace Organization, Code and Documentation Editing, Package Prep and Editing, Etc

v2.8.232

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Mark V. Bravington <mark.bravington@csiro.au>

Initial release

2018-12-11