Hi, I would like to get the actual object name passed as a parameter of a function and am using deparse(substitute(x)) to do that. It doesn't work when it is used along with the foreach package. Appreciate if any one can give some suggestions on how to make it work with foreach. FUN.aaa <- function() { } ff = function( FUN){ foreach(i = 1:3) %dopar% { print(sprintf("deparse(substitute(FUN)) = %s", deparse(substitute(FUN)))) return(NULL) } } ff(FUN.aaa) # will print ff(FUN.aaa) [1] "deparse(substitute(FUN)) = FUN" [1] "deparse(substitute(FUN)) = FUN" [1] "deparse(substitute(FUN)) = FUN" [[1]] NULL [[2]] NULL [[3]] NULL If there is no foreach, it works FUN.aaa <- function() { } ff = function( FUN){ print(sprintf("deparse(substitute(FUN)) = %s", deparse(substitute(FUN)))) } } ff(FUN.aaa) #It works and prints> ff(FUN.aaa)ff(FUN.aaa) [1] "deparse(substitute(FUN)) = FUN.aaa" thanks Jeff