Dear list, I have a function whose first argument is '...'. Each element of '...' is a data frame, and there will be at least 2 data frames in '...'. The function processes each of the data frames in '...' and returns a list, whose components are the processed data frames. I would like to name the components of this returned list with the names of the original data frames.
Normally I'd use deparse(substitute()) to do this, but here I do not know the appropriate argument to run deparse(substitute()) on, and doing this on ... only returns a single "name": > foo <- function(...) + deparse(substitute(...)) > dat1 <- rnorm(10) > dat2 <- runif(10) > foo(dat1, dat2) [1] "dat1" Can anyone suggest to me a way to get the names of objects passed as the ... argument of a function? TIA G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 UCL Department of Geography Pearson Building [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street London, UK [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ WC1E 6BT [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk/ %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ 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.
