You might find http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Computing-on-the-language.html helpful.
Hadley On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:49 AM, <g.maub...@weinwolf.de> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a function like > > my_func <- function(dataset) > { > some operation > } > > Now I would like not only to operate on the dataset (how this is done is > obvious) but I would like to get the name of the dataset handed over as an > argument. > > Example: > > my_func <- function(dataset = iris) > { > print(dataset) # here I do not want to print the dataset but the name > of the object - iris in this case - instead > # quote() does not do the trick cause it prints "dataset" instead of > "iris" > # as.name() gives an error saying that the object can not coerced to a > symbol > } > > Is there a way to do this? > > Kind regards > > Georg > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- http://hadley.nz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.