Re: [R] Referring to an object name from within a function

Excellent, thanks, and sorry about the test(x) goof. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Referring-to-an-object-name-from-within-a-function-tp3167147p3167174.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R

Re: [R] Referring to an object name from within a function

On Dec 29, 2010, at 9:18 AM, zerfetzen wrote: Can anyone show me how to refer to an object name that is passed to a function, from within the function? deparse(substitute(x)) For example: MyModel <- 1 test <- function(x) { if(x == 1) {cat("x is a valid object.\n")} } test(x) Well

[R] Referring to an object name from within a function

Can anyone show me how to refer to an object name that is passed to a function, from within the function? For example: MyModel <- 1 test <- function(x) { if(x == 1) {cat("x is a valid object.\n")} } test(x) What I would like this to do is pass MyModel to function test, and if it passes a