[R] Object name and Strings?

[Stéphane Cruveiller]

Thanks for your answer.

Here is what I am trying to do.
I have a list which is called MyList. I would like to get only the "name"
of this object as a simple characters string. i.e. Is there a function 
in R which is able
to give:

 > name<-fun(Mylist)
 > name
"MyList"


thanks in advance,

Stéphane.



Prof Brian Ripley a écrit :
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Stéphane Cruveiller wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there a simple way to convert an object name to a characters string?
>>     
>
> Yes, as.character, as in
>
>   
>> x <- as.name("foo")
>> x
>>     
> foo
>   
>> as.character(x)
>>     
> [1] "foo"
>
> However, I suspect you are not using the words in their technical sense
> (a name is a synonym for a symbol in R), so if this is not the answer, 
> please give us an example of what you are trying to do (which might be 
> deparse).
>
>