Use
 deparse(substitute(df))

Example from ?deparse:

  function(x, y) {
      plot(x, y, xlab=deparse(substitute(x)),
        ylab=deparse(substitute(y)))
   }

-Don

At 12:00 PM -0700 7/2/09, Mark Knecht wrote:
>I've passed a data.frame as an input into a function which does some
>plotting on a 4x4 matrix of certain parameters within in the
>data.frame. I'd like to add a small header on top of each plot with
>the name of the data.frame so that it's clear as I compare these 16
>things where each on came from.
>
>So far I haven't found the right way to get the name of the data.frame
>as a string which I can use in something like mtext. Is there one? If
>I put dummy text in, or take the time to pass in the name by hand,
>then I do get titles just as I'd like, but I'd far rather let the name
>of the data.frame speak for itself.
>
>Thanks,
>Mark
>
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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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