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On 3/2/07, Ido M. Tamir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charilaos Skiadas wrote: > > > On Mar 2, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Ido M. Tamir wrote: > >> > >> But how do I get from a function to its name? > > > > Can you do this with any object in R? > > In what situation will you be wanting this name? I mean, how would > > you be given this object, but not know its name in advance? If it is > > passed as an argument in a function or something, then what would you > > consider to be its name? > > I.e. I don't really see where you would reasonably want to do > > something like this, without there being another way around it. > > > > I wanted to pass a vector of functions as an argument to a function to do some > calculations and put the results in a list where each list entry has > the "name" of the function. > I thought I could either pass a vector of function names as character, then > retrieve the functions etc... > Or do the opposite, pass the functions and then retrieve the names, but > this seems not to be possible it occurred to me, hence my question. > > > thanks > ido > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
