Thanks Prof Ripley! How obvious in retrospect! Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Steve Powell wrote:Dear list members, I am trying, within a lapply command, to print the name of the objects in list or data frame. This is so that I can use odfWeave to print out a report with a section for each object, including the object names. I tried e.g. a=b=c=1:5 lis=data.frame(a,b,c) lapply( lis, function (z) { obj.nam <- deparse(substitute(z)) cat("some other text",obj.nam,"and so on","\n") } ) But instead of getting "a" "b" etc. I get X[[1L]] etc. Any ideas?Use a for() loop on the names: lapply is overkill here. But you could uselapply(names(lis), function (z) { cat("some other text", z, "and so on","\n") ## references to lis[[z]] })www.promente.org proMENTE social research Kran??evi??eva 35 71000 Sarajevo mob. +387 61 215 997 tel. +387 556 865 fax. +387 556 866 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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