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Asked: 2026-06-09T13:20:36+00:00

Embarrassingly basic question. When wanting to understand R’s source code I will often just

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Embarrassingly basic question.

When wanting to understand R’s source code I will often just write its name in R and read through the code. The downside of this method is that I will get the code with its comment stripped away.

Assuming I use git, and not subversion, what simple solutions do I have to view the source code?

For example, can I download the R’s source code through git? (as in with github)

Is there some website with all of the code easily searchable?

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  1. Editorial Team

    To download the current R-development svn using git-svn (you might need to install git-svn in addition to git):

    git svn clone https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/

    To browse R-project source code online, just visit the same site:

    https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/

    Or, for the other branches:

    https://svn.r-project.org/R/

    To search for, say, glm() related code in the R-development source code, I usually try a Google search:

    glm site:svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/
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