Hi,
Try this,
myplot <- function(subject) { plot(subject,
main=deparse(substitute(subject))) }
s1 <- c(200,200,190,180)
myplot(s1)
see ?deparse
HTH,
baptiste
2009/9/2 Marianne Promberger <mprom...@psych.upenn.edu>
> Dear list,
>
> I've written a function that plots subjects. Something like:
>
> myplot <- function(subject) { plot(subject) }
>
> Subjects are vectors, e.g. ...
> s1 <- c(200,200,190,180)
> ... and plotting them works fine, e.g. ...
> myplot(s1)
>
> Now I want to have "s1" etc appear in the plot title, but I don't know
> how to refer to this generically (the object "name"? I tried
> as.name(s1) but that returns the first element of the vector).
>
> So I want something like :
>
> myplot <- function(subject) { plot(subject,main=X) }
>
> where X is the expression I'm looking for, and the plot should have the
> title
> "s1" if I've called myplot(s1), "s2" if myplot(s2), etc.
>
> I'm sure I'll be really embarrassed that this is so trivial but I
> cannot figure it out.
>
>
> Marianne
>
> --
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> King's College London
>
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