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2011 Sep 08
0
Consistently printing the name of an object passed to a function; & a data-auditing question
...0-year annual survey,
they add two more allowable answers to a question. etc.
I'm looking for things to make my data auditing go faster. One of them is a
dopy little function, testX(), bundling together a variety of r tools to
tell me what is in an object. Here it is:
testX <- function(objectX, bar=TRUE) { # A useful diagnostic function
object.name <- deparse(substitute(objectX))
if(bar) cat("########################\n"); # visual separation between
consecutive objects.
cat("testX(", object.name, "): "); cat("Class=", class(obje...
2011 Sep 15
2
Returning the name of an object passed directly or from a list by lapply
Dear folks:
Let?s suppose I want a function to print return the name of the object
passed to it.
> myname <- function(object) {out<-deparse(substitute(object)); out}
This works fine on a single object:
> O1 <-c(1:4)
> myname(O1)
[1] "O1"
However it does not work if you use lapply to pass it the same object from a
list:
> O2 <-c(1:4)
> object.list <-