Try this: foo <- function(data)print(deparse(substitute(data))) foo(DF)
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Jason Baucom <jason.bau...@ateb.com> wrote: > I'm writing a function that can take a data.frame as an argument. I'd > like to be able to obtain the name of the data.frame and print it out > within the function. My current function looks like this: > > > > examineIt<-function(x) { > > print(nrow(x)) > > print(x[ceiling(runif(10)*nrow(x)),]) > > print(summary(x)) > > } > > > > examineIt(myDataFrame) > > > > I'd like for the function to also output "myDataFrame". Is there any way > to do this? I'm running this function several times in a row and need to > be able to identify which data.frame was analyzed. > > > > Thanks! > > Jason > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ 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.