identification of function output

[mmarion]

How can I determine what are the stored variables in a function such as t.test?
For example, I may want to only output one of the following at a time:
t,df,p-value, confidence interval or mean.

Thanks. MM

t.test(x,y,paired=TRUE,alpha=.10,mu=5,alternative="two.sided")

        Paired t-test

data:  x and y
t = -3.5292, df = 31, p-value = 0.001325
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 5
95 percent confidence interval:
 2.006935 4.199315
sample estimates:
mean of the differences 
               3.103125 

[startz]

?t.test will bring up help. Then scroll down in help.

[StanKoobs]

Note that the output of t.test() is a list object. It contains different parts of the outcome of the test. To output the aspects you listed above, respectively, I would use something like this:

ttest = t.test(x,y,paired=TRUE,alpha=.10,mu=5,alternative="two.sided")

ttest$statistic
ttest$parameter
ttest$p.value
ttest$conf.int
ttest$estimate

The dollar sign $ allows you to extract those elements.

[nirgrahamuk]

In general you can see what is in a list with str(), if you get too much info you can limit that with max.level param

str(x,max.level=1)

Also at the top level you can get the names defined on an object with names.
names(x)