On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Eryk Wolski wrote: > ?assign
No, this is not going to work. If Henrik has described his wish correctly, he wants to execute the call assigned.name <- stupid.function(whatever) and be able, inside stupid.function, to find out what name the result is going to be assigned to. This is, I think, impossible. If assigned.name is passed as an argument of stupid.function then it is possible, but assign() isn't necessary. -thomas > > /E > > On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Henrik Andersson wrote: > > > I want to use the name that I assign to an object in the function that > > produces the output, somewhat like below: > > > > stupid.function <- function(input){ > > [body] > > cat("Summarized output is ", output$summary, "Full output is > > given > > by typing", assigned.name, "\n") > > } > > > > assigned.name <- stupid.function(whatever) > > > > > > or another example is a function that sinks the results to a text file > > and names it assigned.name.txt . > > > > I checked the help for function, <-, assign but could not find it, is it > > possible ? > > > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > Henrik Andersson > > Netherlands Institute of Ecology - > > Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology > > P.O. Box 140 > > 4400 AC Yerseke > > Phone: +31 113 577473 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/ppages/handersson > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html