On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Peter Langfelder
<peter.langfel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is there a way to extract the name of a function, i.e. do the reverse
> of match.fun applied to a character string? I would like to print out
> the name of a function supplied to another function as an argument.
>
> For example:
>
> myFunc = function(x) { x+1 }
>
> applyFunc = function(fnc, x)
> {
> fnc = match.fun(fnc)
> fnc(x)
> }
>
> Is there a way to obtain "myFunc" from the argument fnc in applyFnc
> the following call is issued?
>
> applyFnc(myFunc, 1)
...or am I missing the basic fact that since arguments to functions in
R are passed by copy, the name is lost/meaningless?
Thanks,
Peter
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