Yes, I was too fast there, sorry. I sent a correction right after but must have picked Reply instead of Replay All.
Cheers Thomas On 10 January 2017 at 10:31:30, Bert Gunter (bgunter.4...@gmail.com<mailto:bgunter.4...@gmail.com>) wrote: This is false. formals() gives the FORMAL argument list of the function, not the ACTUAL arguments supplied. That is obtained by the construction deparse(substitute(dataset)) The OP should consult a good R tutorial for this and other uses of substitute(), part of the "computing on the language" functionality of R. Bert On Jan 10, 2017 4:04 AM, "Thomas Mailund" <mail...@birc.au.dk<mailto:mail...@birc.au.dk>> wrote: 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, g.maub...@weinwolf.de<mailto:g.maub...@weinwolf.de> (g.maub...@weinwolf.de<mailto:g.maub...@weinwolf.de>(mailto:g.maub...@weinwolf.de<mailto:g.maub...@weinwolf.de>)) 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<http://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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org<mailto: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<mailto: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.
