Actually what's needed is "deparse(substitute(...))":
file = paste(deparse(substitute(x)),"csv",sep="."))
I have no idea what "deparse" and "substitute" really mean; I just treat
the forgoing as a black box/magic incantation. It works.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 28/08/13 09:19, Hadley Wickham wrote:
It's not really the inverse of assign (that's get), but I think you
want substitute.
See http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Computing-on-the-language.html for more details.
Hadley
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Robert Lynch <robert.b.ly...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am looking for a way to extract the name of a variable that has been
passed into a function
for example
foo <-function(x){
write.csv(x, file = paste(NAME(x), "csv", sep ="."))
}
is there a function "NAME" that would let the calls
foo(bar)
write the file bar.csv
and foo(stuff)
write the file stuff.csv
Robert
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