Extracting Variable Name to define breaks for histogram
Christian Langkamp wrote:
Hi
I am trying to define an automatic breaks function for a histogram.
Inputs are a vector x and a number n. What I would like is to define the
outcome as breaks_(Name of Vector) - but the paste("breaks_",x) obviously
refers to the whole vector.
breaks<- function(x, n)
{
R<-range(x, na.rm=T)
diff_x<-R[2]-R[1]
paste("breaks_",x)<-c(NA, seq(floor(R[1]), ceiling(R[2]),diff_x/n))
rm(diff_x, R)
}
I do not think you want it that way. You want to return values, not to assign it into the environment of a function that is shortly deleted anyway. Anyway, for the assignment itself (that is also undesirable), see ?assign Uwe Ligges