Two seconds using google: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9002227/how-to-get-the-name-of-a-data-frame-within-a-list
2015-05-15 7:20 GMT-05:00 Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com>: > 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. > [[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.