[R] Name of data.frame as a text string?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 7/2/2009 3:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 7/2/09, Don MacQueen <macq at llnl.gov> wrote:
>> Use
>>   deparse(substitute(df))
>>
>>  Example from ?deparse:
>>
>>     function(x, y) {
>>          plot(x, y, xlab=deparse(substitute(x)),
>>              ylab=deparse(substitute(y)))
>>      }
>>
>>  -Don
>>
> 
> Now that's interesting... deparsed means ?? de-analyze ?? I'm not
> clear what that's doing for me beyond using only substitute but your
> example and the substitute example both use it so I suppose I
> shouldn't tempt the Fates...

substitute() returns an expression.  deparse() turns an expression into 
a text string.  (So named because parse() turns a text string or strings 
into an expression.)

Duncan Murdoch