Try this:

TestFunc<-function(df, group) {
    return(names(eval(bquote(subset(df1, select = .(group))))))
}

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Karl Knoblick <karlknoblich@yahoo.de>wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I have the problem that in my function the passed variable is not used, but
> the variable name of the dataframe itself - difficult to explain, but an
> easy example:
>
> TestFunc<-function(df, group) {
>     print(names(subset(df, select=group)))
> }
> df1<-data.frame(group="G1", visit="V1", value=0.9)
> TestFunc(df1, c("group", "visit"))
>
> Result:
> [1] "group"
>
> But I expected and want to have [1] "group" "visit" as result! Does anybody
> know how to get this result?
>
> Thanks!
> Karl
>
>
>
>
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