[R] New unique name

Erich Neuwirth erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at
Mon Apr 19 10:00:33 CEST 2004


In some languages there is a function
gensym()
which returns a new unique name (in the current environment).
This is quite helpful when one has to do temporary assignments.
I could not find such a function in R.
Is there one?


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