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## Overview
The **`apropos()` function** in R is used to return a character vector with the names of objects matching or containing the input character partially.

The **`find()` function**, on the other hand, is used to return a location where the objects of a given name can be found.

## Syntax
```
apropos(what, where = FALSE, ignore.case = TRUE, mode = "any")
find(what, mode = "any", numeric = FALSE, simple.words = TRUE)
```
## Parameter
The `apropos()` and the `find()` functions take a common mandatory parameter value, `what`, which represents the string character to match object names against.
## Optional parameter  values
* `where`, `numeric`: This takes a logical value indicating whether positions in the search list should also be determined.
* `ignore.case`: Takes a logical value indicating if the search should be case-sensitive or not. It has its default value as `TRUE`.
* `mode`: Represents the character. if not `"any"`, only the objects whose `mode` equals `mode` are searched for.
* `simple.words`: Takes a logical value. If `TRUE`, the `what` parameter is only searched as a whole word.
## Return value
The `apropos()` function returns a character vector which is sorted by name.

The `find()` function returns the character vector of environment names or numerical vectors of positions with names of the corresponding environments.
## How to use the apropos() function

In the code below, we'll identify all the R objects with names containing `"var"` using the `apropos()` function. And pick one of the output results to determine the environment where the object can be found.
## Code



# checking for R objects which contains "var" as its name or partially
apropos("var")

## Explanation
We use the `apropos()` function to obtain the objects in R matching the name character `"var"`. 

From the output of the code:
```
[1] ".expand_R_libs_env_var" "all.vars"               "estVar"                
[4] "get_all_vars"           "globalVariables"        "var"                   
[7] "var.test"               "variable.names"         "varimax"  
```
We have a list of R objects matching the name character `var` as seen in the code above.

## How to use the find() function
From the output of the code, we  use the `find()` function to determine the location of the object `"all.vars"` as seen in the output of the previous code.
## Code







# using the find() function to return the location of the object "all.vars"
find("all.vars")

## Explanation
We use the `find()` function to determine the location of the R object, `"all.vars"`.  From the code's output, the object can be located in the environment named ` "package:base"`.

What is the apropos() and find() functions in R?

Used for matching object names, apropos() returns a sorted character vector; find() locates environments containing specified objects.