This function returns character value previously stored in variable's name attribute. If none found, the function defaults to object's name.

name(x)

Arguments

x

an R (atomic or data.frame/list) object to extract names from

Value

a character value with variable's label

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
name(mtcars$am)
x <- 1:10
name(x)
} # }