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all.names {base}

Find All Names in an Expression
Package: 
base
Version: 
R 3.0.1

Description

Return a character vector containing all the names which occur in an expression or call.

Usage

all.names(expr, functions = TRUE, max.names = -1L, unique = FALSE)

all.vars(expr, functions = FALSE, max.names = -1L, unique = TRUE)

Arguments

expr
an expression or call from which the names are to be extracted.
functions
a logical value indicating whether function names should be included in the result.
max.names
the maximum number of names to be returned. -1 indicates no limit (other than vector size limits).
unique
a logical value which indicates whether duplicate names should be removed from the value.

Details

These functions differ only in the default values for their arguments.

Values

A character vector with the extracted names.

See Also

substitute to replace symbols with values in an expression.

Examples

all.names(expression(sin(x+y)))
all.names(quote(sin(x+y))) # or a call
all.vars(expression(sin(x+y)))

Documentation reproduced from R 3.0.1. License: GPL-2.