[R] get the enclosing function name

baptiste auguie baptiste.auguie at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 11 15:32:48 CET 2009


Hi,

.NotYetImplemented gives an example,

function ()
stop(gettextf("'%s' is not implemented yet",
as.character(sys.call(sys.parent())[[1L]])),
    call. = FALSE)
<environment: namespace:base>

HTH,

baptiste

2009/12/11 Hao Cen <hcen at andrew.cmu.edu>:
> 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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