variable_name: Determine variable name

In oeli: Some Utilities for Developing Data Science Software

Determine variable name

Description

This function tries to determine the name of a variable passed to a function.

Usage

variable_name(variable, fallback = "unnamed")

Arguments

variable	[any] Any object.
fallback	[character(1)] A fallback name if for some reason the actual variable name (which must be a single character) cannot be determined.

Value

A character, the variable name.

See Also

Other function helpers: do.call_timed(), function_arguments(), function_body(), function_defaults(), quiet(), timed(), try_silent()

Examples

variable_name(a)
f <- function(x) variable_name(x)
f(x = a)

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