> many thanks for your answer and for the enormous work you put into plyr, a > really powerful package. > For now, I will solve my problem with a variable label attribute, I usually > attach to columns in data frames. I asked the list, because I thought, I am > overlooking something trivial, since lapply itself apparently "knows" the > object names, as it labels the output by them. It just does not supply them > to the function it calls.
lapply knows the names - the calling function doesn't - it takes the output add then fixes up the names after it's run. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
