[R] generically setting attributes of a function

[Gabor Grothendieck]

shang stud <facS93 <at> mors.hampshire.edu> writes:

: 
: Hello all:
: 
: I wonder if there is a generic way to assign the name of a function as an
: attribute of the function. For example,
: 
: w = function(x) x^2;
: attr(w, "name") =  "w";
: 
: This assigns the name attribute of function w to be "w".
: 
: Would it be possible to put the second line of the code inside the
: function definition? I would like to avoid typing specifically the
: name, "w", when assigning the attribute.
: 

structure(function(x) x^2, name = "w")