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Short answer: don't do that; use a list instead.
Assuming data is a data.frame:
data
vars <- lapply(data, my.fun) results <- as.data.frame(lapply(vars, new.fun))
vars <- lapply(data, my.fun) results <- lapply(vars, new.fun)
