demo {base}R Documentation

Demonstrations of R functionality

Description

demo is a user-friendly interface to running some demonstration R scripts. demo() gives the list of available topics.

Usage

demo(topic, device = getOption("device"),
     package = .packages(), lib.loc = .lib.loc,
     character.only = FALSE)

Arguments

topic the topic which should be demonstrated. If omitted, the list of available topics is displayed.
device the graphics device to be used.
package a name or character vector giving the packages to look into for data sets. By default, all packages in the search path are used.
lib.loc a character vector of directory names of R libraries. Defaults to all libraries currently known. If the default is used, the loaded packages are searched before the libraries.
character.only logical; if TRUE, use topic as character string instead of name.

See Also

source which is called by demo.

Examples

demo() # for attached packages

## All available demos:
demo(package = .packages(all.available = TRUE))

demo(lm.glm)


 ch <- "scoping"
 demo(ch, character = TRUE)