\HeaderA{getAnywhere}{Retrieve an R Object, Including from a Name Space}{getAnywhere}
\aliasA{argsAnywhere}{getAnywhere}{argsAnywhere}
\aliasA{print.getAnywhere}{getAnywhere}{print.getAnywhere}
\aliasA{[.getAnywhere}{getAnywhere}{[.getAnywhere}
\keyword{data}{getAnywhere}
\begin{Description}\relax
These functions locates all objects with name matching its argument,
whether visible on the search path, registered as an S3 method or in a
name space but not exported. \code{getAnywhere()} returns the objects
and \code{argsAnywhere()} returns the arguments of any objects that
are functions.
\end{Description}
\begin{Usage}
\begin{verbatim}
getAnywhere(x)
argsAnywhere(x)
\end{verbatim}
\end{Usage}
\begin{Arguments}
\begin{ldescription}
\item[\code{x}] a character string or name.
\end{ldescription}
\end{Arguments}
\begin{Details}\relax
The function looks at all loaded name spaces, 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 name space registered them.  This may not be correct, especially
if a name space is unloaded.
\end{Details}
\begin{Value}
For \code{getAnywhere()} an object of class \code{"getAnywhere"}.  This is a list with components
\begin{ldescription}
\item[\code{name}] the name searched for.
\item[\code{objs}] a list of objects found
\item[\code{where}] a character vector explaining where the object(s) were found
\item[\code{visible}] logical: is the object visible
\item[\code{dups}] logical: is the object identical to one earlier in the
list.
\end{ldescription}


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

For \code{argsAnywhere()} one or more argument lists as returned by \code{\LinkA{args}{args}}.
\end{Value}
\begin{SeeAlso}\relax
\code{\LinkA{get}{get}},  \code{\LinkA{getFromNamespace}{getFromNamespace}}, \code{\LinkA{args}{args}}
\end{SeeAlso}
\begin{Examples}
\begin{ExampleCode}
getAnywhere("format.dist")
getAnywhere("simpleLoess") # not exported from stats
argsAnywhere(format.dist)
\end{ExampleCode}
\end{Examples}

