[R] get the enclosing function name

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try placing this in your function:

Name <- match.call()[[1]]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Hao Cen <hcen at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to get the enclosing function name within a function?
>
> For example, I would like to have a function getEnclosingFunctionName().
> It works like below
>
> f = function(){
>  print(getEnclosingFunctionName())
>
> }
>
>
> f()  # will print  "f"
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff
>
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