Try placing this in your function: Name <- match.call()[[1]]
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Hao Cen <h...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to get the enclosing function name within a function? > > For example, I would like to have a function getEnclosingFunctionName(). > It works like below > > f = function(){ > print(getEnclosingFunctionName()) > > } > > > f() # will print "f" > > > Thanks > > Jeff > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.