problem deparsing argument
On Aug 18, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Ernest Adrogu? wrote:
Hi, I don't know much about R's deparsing "magic", I simply use the deparse(substitute(arg)) trick to get the names of the variables passed as arguments to the function in order to set labels, etc. The problem is that this doesn't work with nested functions. For example,
foo <- function(x) print(deparse(substitute(x))) a=1 foo(a)
[1] "a" This is OK. However,
bar <- function(x) foo(x) bar(a)
[1] "x" this is not what I want. I wanted bar(a) to print "a" not "x". Is it possible to do this?
> bar <- function(x) class(substitute(foo(x))) > bar(a) [1] "call So... > bar <- function(x) substitute(foo(x))[[2]] > bar(a) a
David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT