[R] Obtaining name of data frame used in a function argument

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Try this:

foo <- function(data)print(deparse(substitute(data)))
foo(DF)

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Jason Baucom <jason.baucom at ateb.com> wrote:
> I'm writing a function that can take a data.frame as an argument. I'd
> like to be able to obtain the name of the data.frame and print it out
> within the function. My current function looks like this:
>
>
>
> examineIt<-function(x) {
>
> print(nrow(x))
>
> print(x[ceiling(runif(10)*nrow(x)),])
>
> print(summary(x))
>
> }
>
>
>
> examineIt(myDataFrame)
>
>
>
> I'd like for the function to also output "myDataFrame". Is there any way
> to do this? I'm running this function several times in a row and need to
> be able to identify which data.frame was analyzed.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jason
>
>
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