R help - Dec 2013 - How to coerce an object name to character vector?

For example, I have a numeric vector named "d" (without any
attributes) and
   I want to coerce it to character vector "d". Is there any such
functions? I
   need  it  to make a function which applies other functions to objects,
   something like this:

   do<-function(x,fun, ...) {
   fun<-match.fun(fun)
   assign(as.character(quote(x)),fun(x, ...))
   }

   But, of course, quote(x) always return just "x", not the name of
object.

   Thanks for help!

   ______

   ?? ??????????????????,
   ??.??. ????????????????

Not tested, but I think you may want this:

do <- function(x,fun, ...) {
  fun <- match.fun(fun)
  obj.name <- deparse(substitute(x))
  assign(obj.name,fun(x, ...))
}



-Don




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On 12/9/13 1:14 PM, "????? ????????" <a-morkovin at yandex.ru>
wrote:
>
>   For example, I have a numeric vector named "d" (without any
>attributes) and
>   I want to coerce it to character vector "d". Is there any such
>functions? I
>   need  it  to make a function which applies other functions to objects,
>   something like this:
>
>   do<-function(x,fun, ...) {
>   fun<-match.fun(fun)
>   assign(as.character(quote(x)),fun(x, ...))
>   }
>
>   But, of course, quote(x) always return just "x", not the name
of
>object.
>
>   Thanks for help!
>
>   ______
>
>   ?? ??????????????????,
>   ??.??. ????????????????
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