[R] from function to its name?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

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On 3/2/07, Ido M. Tamir <tamir at imp.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>
> > On Mar 2, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Ido M. Tamir wrote:
> >>
> >> But how do I get from a function to its name?
> >
> > Can you do this with any object in R?
> > In what situation will you be wanting this name? I mean, how would
> > you be given this object, but not know its name in advance? If it is
> > passed as an argument in a function or something, then what would you
> > consider to be its name?
> > I.e. I don't really see where you would reasonably want to do
> > something like this, without there being another way around it.
> >
>
> I wanted to pass a vector of functions as an argument to a function to do some
> calculations and put the results in a list where each list entry has
> the "name" of the function.
> I thought I could either pass a vector of function names as character, then
> retrieve the functions etc...
> Or do the opposite, pass the functions and then retrieve the names, but
> this seems not to be possible it occurred to me, hence my question.
>
>
> thanks
> ido
>
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