[R] Assessing the name of an object within an argument

[Hadley Wickham]

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Hadley

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:49 AM,  <G.Maubach at weinwolf.de> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a function like
>
> my_func <- function(dataset)
> {
>   some operation
> }
>
> Now I would like not only to operate on the dataset (how this is done is
> obvious) but I would like to get the name of the dataset handed over as an
> argument.
>
> Example:
>
> my_func <- function(dataset = iris)
> {
>   print(dataset)  # here I do not want to print the dataset but the name
> of the object - iris in this case - instead
>   # quote() does not do the trick cause it prints "dataset" instead of
> "iris"
>   # as.name() gives an error saying that the object can not coerced to a
> symbol
> }
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Georg
>
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