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2011 Sep 15
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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 <-