Wow, you are so lazy... But sometimes R is just designed for lazy guys... ## f = function(a) { s = substitute(a) as.character(s) } ##
> f(a = asdf) [1] "asdf" > f(qwer) [1] "qwer" Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: +86-(0)10-82509086 Fax: +86-(0)10-82509086 Mobile: +86-15810805877 Homepage: http://www.yihui.name School of Statistics, Room 1037, Mingde Main Building, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This works if you type it in from the R console: > >> s <- readline() > this is my string > >> s > [1] "this is my string" > > > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Jinsong Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I hope to use a string as an input in my function, however, I don't want >> to input the quotation mark. Is it possible? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Regards, >> Jinsong >> ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.