If the package is not installed, then get the package from bioconductor: {{{ source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") biocLite("yeast2.db") }}} load the library and list the contents of the package: {{{ library(yeast2.db) > ls("package:yeast2.db") [1] "yeast2" "yeast2_dbconn" "yeast2_dbfile" [4] "yeast2_dbInfo" "yeast2_dbschema" "yeast2ALIAS" [7] "yeast2ALIAS2PROBE" "yeast2CHR" "yeast2CHRLENGTHS" [10] "yeast2CHRLOC" "yeast2CHRLOCEND" "yeast2DESCRIPTION" [13] "yeast2ENSEMBL" "yeast2ENSEMBL2PROBE" "yeast2ENZYME" [16] "yeast2ENZYME2PROBE" "yeast2GENENAME" "yeast2GO" [19] "yeast2GO2ALLPROBES" "yeast2GO2PROBE" "yeast2MAPCOUNTS" [22] "yeast2ORF" "yeast2ORGANISM" "yeast2ORGPKG" [25] "yeast2PATH" "yeast2PATH2PROBE" "yeast2PMID" [28] "yeast2PMID2PROBE" }}}