Hi Kai, One way is to name the components of your list with the names of the data frames:
df1<-data.frame(a=1:3) df2<-data.frame(a=4:6) df3<-data.frame(a=7:9) dflist<-list(df1,df2,df3) names(dflist)<-c("df1","df2","df3") for(i in 1:length(dflist)) cat(names(dflist)[i],"\n") df1 df2 df3 Jim On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Kai Mx <govo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I just can't figure this out: > > I have a loop trough several dataframes such as > > for (df in list(df1, df2, df3, ...)) { > ..some functions with df.. > } > > now I want to print out the current dataframes name (ie the list items > name) with the cat command before the actual functions to have better > orientation in the output. > However, I haven't been successful with different variations of deparse(), > substitute(), (cat(substitute(df)) gives me 'df' for the whole loop). > > Could somebody please enlighten me? > > Thanks so much! > > Best, > > Kai > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.