Pass object name into do.call() function

Question

Is there a way to pass object name into do.call() function? For example: ``` #First make a function that will return the name of object itself. PrintObjectName <- function(obj){ print(deparse(substitute(obj))) } data(iris) PrintObjectName(iris) [1] "iris" #This is what I want do.call(what="PrintObjectName", args=list(obj=iris)) #The output is a messy stuff ```

Accepted Answer

You want to use `alist` within your call to `do.call`.

`alist` handles its arguments as if they described function arguments. So the values are not evaluated

```
do.call(what="PrintObjectName", args=alist(obj=iris))
# [1] "iris"
```

or you could use `quote`

```
do.call(what="PrintObjectName", args=list(obj=quote(iris)))
```

Pass object name into do.call() function

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