[R] Accesing the name of an assigned object in a function

[Arne Henningsen]

Hi Hendrik,

if I understand you right, match.call() can help you.

All the best,
Arne

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 12:13, Henrik Andersson wrote:
> I want to use the name that I assign to an object in the function that
> produces the output, somewhat like below:
>
> stupid.function <- function(input){
>  [body]
>  cat("Summarized output is ", output$summary, "Full output is    given
> by typing", assigned.name, "\n")
>  }
>
> assigned.name <- stupid.function(whatever)
>
>
> or another example is a function that sinks the results to a text file
> and names it assigned.name.txt .
>
> I checked the help for function, <-, assign but could not find it, is it
>   possible ?
>
>
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