I use: foo <- function(...) { args <- list(...); names(args); }
/Henrik On 6/1/07, Mike Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a tidy way to get the names of objects passed to a function via the > "..." argument? > > rbind/cbind does what I want: > > test.func1 <- function(...) { > nms <- rownames(rbind(..., deparse.level=1)) > print(nms) > } > > x <- "some stuff" > second <- "more stuff" > test.func1(first=x, second) > [1] "first" "second" > > The usual 'deparse(substitute())' doesn't do it: > > test.func2 <- function(...) { > nms <- deparse(substitute(...)) > print(nms) > } > test.func2(first=x, second) > [1] "x" > > I'm using "nms <- rownames(rbind(...))" as a workaround, which works, but > there must be a neater way! > > rbind/cbind are .Internal, so I can't pinch code from there. > > Thanks, Mike. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Getting-names-of-objects-passed-with-%22...%22-tf3850318.html#a10906614 > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.