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[S] How to "quote" a data object's name in a function
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy White)
Thu Sep 9 13:37:22 1999
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From: Andy White <andy_white@hmsa.com>
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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 07:28:12 -1000
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Pardon my ignorance on this one, but:
how do you "quote" the name of a data-object in a function?
I want to have a function which returns a text header at the beginning of
its output, and I want to cite the name of the data object utilized in the
function. I would like something like:
cat("Data Description for data object", dataname)
but of course if dataname is the name of the dataobject, like a dataframe,
cat() gives the wrong results
cuz I get the entire data objects contents spilled out !! rather than just
the dataobject's name repeated in fancy-text.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Andy White
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