Using complex methods combined with Baire's Theorem, we show that onesided extendability, extendability, and real analyticity are rare phenomena on various spaces of functions in the topological sense. These considerations led us to introduce the p-continuous analytic capacity and variants of it, p ∈ {0, 1, 2, . . .} ∪ {∞}, for compact or closed sets in C. We use these capacities in order to characterize the removability of singularities of functions in the spaces A p .