In R, one very neat feature is that the source code of functions is accessible as objects in the workspace.

Thus, if I wanted to know the source code of, for example, grep() I can simply type grep into the console and read the code.

Similarly, I can read the documentation for grep by typing ?grep into the console.

Question: How can I get the source code for the documentation of a function? In other words, where do I find the .rd files?

I find studying the source of well-written code an excellent way of learning the idioms. Now I want to study how to write documentation for some very specific cases. I have not been able to find the documentation files for any of the base R functions in my R installation. Perhaps I have been looking in the wrong place.

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