[R] symbol-name

[Setzer.Woodrow@epamail.epa.gov]

I believe you can use either:
deparse(quote(foo))

or the one-liner:
symbol.name <- function(x) deparse(substitute(x),width=500)


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Is there a (symbol-name foo) in R, which returns the name of a
symbol as a string ?
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