getFamily: Find all distributions in a package

In DistributionFitR: Fitting Multiple Parametric Distributions

Description

Given the name of a package, this function finds all distribution families that are provided in the package. Distributions are identified by scanning all function names in a package for the pattern r***, p***, q***, d***, (*** representing at least one character)

Usage

getFamily(pkg)

Arguments

pkg	character string; name of the package

Value

A list of of lists, the latter with two named elements:

package	The name of the package as provided to the function
family	The name of the function that belongs to a distribution family, referred to as *** above.

Note

The function make do with at least two functions that have the same remainder of the function name.

Author(s)

Manuel Hentschel, Valentin von Trotha

Examples

   str(getFamily("stats"))

DistributionFitR documentation built on March 13, 2020, 3:29 a.m.