On Aug 18, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Ernest Adrogué wrote:
Hi,
I don't know much about R's deparsing "magic", I simply use the
deparse(substitute(arg)) trick to get the names of the variables
passed as arguments to the function in order to set labels, etc.
The problem is that this doesn't work with nested functions. For
example,
foo <- function(x) print(deparse(substitute(x)))
a=1
foo(a)
[1] "a"
This is OK. However,
bar <- function(x) foo(x)
bar(a)
[1] "x"
this is not what I want. I wanted bar(a) to print "a" not "x". Is it
possible to do this?
> bar <- function(x) class(substitute(foo(x)))
> bar(a)
[1] "call
So...
> bar <- function(x) substitute(foo(x))[[2]]
> bar(a)
a
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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