Tryu this:

deparse(substitute(mtcars))

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear all
> Is there an easier way to retrieve the name of an object? For example,
> > tmp <- 1:10
> > as.character(quote(tmp))
> [1] "tmp"
> > as.character(quote(mtcars$cyl))
> [1] "$"      "mtcars" "cyl"
> > as.character(quote(mtcars$cyl))[3]
> [1] "cyl"
>
> The last call more than anything seems a hack. Is there a better way?
>
> Thank you
> Liviu
>
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