This is inspired from/a subset of Hadley Wickham’s vocabulary.
? # to get help
str # structure of an object
$, [, [[ # to access elements from a list / data.frame
head, tail # begin and end of an object
## test content of vector
<, >, <=, >=
==, !=
duplicated, unique
order, rank, quantile
sort
## logical operations
!, &, !
all, any
which
## tabulate content of vector
table
## sets
intersect, union, setdiff, setequal
## Missing data and friends
is.na
is.null
is.nan
complete.cases
## Size of objects
length, dim, nrow, ncol
## Names
names
colnames, rownames
unname
## Add columns, rows
cbind, rbind
merge
## Basic statistics
min, max, range
mean, median, sd, cor, sd, var
prod, sum, cumsum, cumprod, diff
## control flow
if, else
for
ifelse
next, break
switch
## apply and friends
apply
tapply
lapply, sapply
replicate
## creating/manipulating vectors
c
rep, rep_len
seq, seq_len, seq_along
rev
sample
## coercion and tests
is/as.(character, numeric, logical, factor, ...)
## Character manipulation
grep, agrep
gsub
strsplit
chartr
nchar
tolower, toupper
substr
paste
## Factors
factor, levels, nlevels
reorder, relevel
cut, findInterval
interaction
## Output
print, cat
message, warning
dput
format
sink, capture.output
## Reading and writing data
data
count.fields
read.csv, write.csv
readLines, writeLines
readRDS, saveRDS
load, save
## Output
print, cat
message, warning, stop
dput
format
sink, capture.output