[R] Outputting variable names and their value bindings

[Simon Ellis]

Hullo Jim,

That's wonderful: thank you so much! That makes things even easier. There
are also no problems regarding getting rid of the function as each set of
computations occurs in a new Rstudio process: it's not optimal, but given
the problem it was the best solution. My code will just stick this print
function at the very top of each R script, and then I can get my
collaborator to call it where there are variables to be read out.

This is great. Thank you again! :-)

On 24 June 2018 at 20:37, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Simon,
> Easy to do if you call "print" directly:
>
> print<-function(x) cat(deparse(substitute(x)),"=\n",x,"\n")
> y<-3
> print(y)
> y =
>  3
>
> Obviously you will want to get rid of your print function when it is
> not being used with "rm" or by starting a new session. Getting it to
> bypass the default print method is more difficult and I don't have the
> time to untangle that one at the moment.
>
> Jim
>



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