Re: [R] Placing a column name in a variable XXXX

Hi or if Dan prefers data frame (which is also a list) CInew2 -function(x,alpha){ data.frame(variable = deparse(substitute(x)), mean=mean(x), alpha = alpha) } CInew2(JOBSTAT, 0.05) variable mean alpha 1 JOBSTAT 0.4567117 0.05 Regards Petr In this case you want to use a 'list'

[R] Placing a column name in a variable XXXX

Hi everyone, How does one place an object name (in this case a vector name) into another object (while essentially masking the values of the first object? For example: JOBSAT-rnorm(40) CI-function(x,alpha){ + result-cbind(x,mean=mean(x),alpha) + print(result) + } CI(JOBSAT,.05) I want this

Re: [R] Placing a column name in a variable XXXX

The function is doing exactly what you are telling it to do. You have 'cbind(x, mean(x), alpha)' which is creating a matrix where the first column is all the values in 'x' and the next two are the recycled values of mean and alpha. Is this what you want: JOBSAT-rnorm(10)

Re: [R] Placing a column name in a variable XXXX

In this case you want to use a 'list' since you want character and numerics returned: JOBSTAT-rnorm(10) # new function that does not return 'x' CInew -function(x,alpha){ + list(variable = deparse(substitute(x)), mean=mean(x), alpha = alpha) + } CInew(JOBSTAT, 0.05) $variable [1] JOBSTAT