[R] Extracting the name of an object into a character string and vice versa

[Simon Pickett]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Whittall" <Philip.whittall at detica.com>
To: <r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Extracting the name of an object into a character string 
and vice versa


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> I am still struggling to map a character string to an object name and
> vice versa in R.
> I thought the as.name() function might work, but observe the following
> behaviour ...
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>> attach(warpbreaks)
>> levels(tension)
> [1] "L" "M" "H"
>> levels(as.name("tension"))
> NULL
>> objectname<-as.name("tension")
>> objectname
> tension
>> levels(objectname)
> NULL
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> So even though it sets up a symbol, this symbol isn't recognised as an
> object name by functions such as levels().
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> I need 2 functions, call them A and B such that A("tension") yields the
> object name tension which is recognised by functions and
> B(tension) yields the character result "tension".
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
>
> Philip
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