[R] Name of data.frame as a text string?

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 21:33:09 CEST 2009


On 7/2/09, Don MacQueen <macq at llnl.gov> wrote:
> Use
>   deparse(substitute(df))
>
>  Example from ?deparse:
>
>     function(x, y) {
>          plot(x, y, xlab=deparse(substitute(x)),
>              ylab=deparse(substitute(y)))
>      }
>
>  -Don
>

Now that's interesting... deparsed means ?? de-analyze ?? I'm not
clear what that's doing for me beyond using only substitute but your
example and the substitute example both use it so I suppose I
shouldn't tempt the Fates...

Thanks,
Mark




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