[R] from function to its name?

2007-03-02 Thread Ido M. Tamir
Hi, I can get from a string to a function with this name: f1 - function(x){ mean(x) } do.call(f1,list{1:4}) get(f1) etc... But how do I get from a function to its name? funcVec - c(f1,median) funcVec [[1]] function(x){ mean(x) } str(funcVec) List of 2 $ :function (x) ..- attr(*, source)=

Re: [R] from function to its name?

2007-03-02 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
On Mar 2, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Ido M. Tamir wrote: Hi, I can get from a string to a function with this name: f1 - function(x){ mean(x) } do.call(f1,list{1:4}) get(f1) etc... But how do I get from a function to its name? funcVec - c(f1,median) funcVec [[1]] function(x){ mean(x) } I

Re: [R] from function to its name?

2007-03-02 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:42:46PM +0100, Ido M. Tamir wrote: Hi, I can get from a string to a function with this name: f1 - function(x){ mean(x) } do.call(f1,list{1:4}) get(f1) etc... But how do I get from a function to its name? funcVec - c(f1,median) funcVec [[1]]

Re: [R] from function to its name?

2007-03-02 Thread Ido M. Tamir
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

Re: [R] from function to its name?

2007-03-02 Thread Seth Falcon
Ido M. Tamir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: [R] from function to its name?

2007-03-02 Thread Bert Gunter
, Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA 94404 650-467-7374 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Seth Falcon Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 9:18 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] from function to its name

Re: [R] from function to its name?

2007-03-02 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Check out: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-October/114431.html 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