Coercing the Argument to a Name in R Programming – as.name() Function

as.name() function in R Language is used to coerce the argument to a name. The as.name() and as.symbol() functions are identical.

Syntax: as.name(x)

Parameters:
x: Object to be coerced

Example 1:

# R program to illustrate
# as.name() function

# Calling the as.name() function to
# coerce the argument to a name
x <- as.name("sample")

# Calling the is.name() function
# to check whether the argument is
# name or not
is.name(x)

Output:

[1] TRUE

Example 2:

# R program to illustrate
# as.name() function

# Calling the as.name() function to
# coerce the argument to a name
x <- as.name("sample")

# Getting the class of the argument
class(x)

Output:

[1] "name"

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