You can get that using `formals()`.
my_func <- function(dataset = iris)
{
#print(dataset) # here I do not want to print the dataset but the name
# of the object - iris in this case - instead
print(formals()$dataset) # this is what you want
}
This gives you what the arguments were as an alist. It won’t always be a name,
of course, but when it is, as in this case, that will be a symbol you can print.
Cheers
Thomas
On 10 January 2017 at 09:51:55, [email protected]
([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a function like
>
> my_func <- function(dataset)
> {
> some operation
> }
>
> Now I would like not only to operate on the dataset (how this is done is
> obvious) but I would like to get the name of the dataset handed over as an
> argument.
>
> Example:
>
> my_func <- function(dataset = iris)
> {
> print(dataset) # here I do not want to print the dataset but the name
> of the object - iris in this case - instead
> # quote() does not do the trick cause it prints "dataset" instead of
> "iris"
> # as.name() gives an error saying that the object can not coerced to a
> symbol
> }
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Georg
>
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