See ?match.call
On 7/27/06, Armstrong, Whit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see that plot.default uses deparse(substitute(x)) to extract the
> character name of an argument and put it on the vertical axis.
>
> Hence:
> foo <- 1:10
> plot( foo )
>
> will put the label "foo" on the vertical axis.
>
> However, for a function that takes a "..." list as an input, I can only
> extract the first argument name:
>
> x <- 1:10
> y <- 10:20
>
> foo <- function(...) {
> print(deparse(substitute(...)))
> }
>
> foo(x,y)
>
> returns:
>
> > foo(x,y)
> [1] "x"
> >
>
> and when I try to convert the list to a local variable and then extract
> names, that doesn't work either:
>
> x <- 1:10
> y <- 10:20
>
> foo <- function(...) {
>
> x <- list(...)
> print(deparse(substitute(names(x))))
> }
>
> foo(x,y)
>
> returns:
>
> > foo(x,y)
> [1] "names(list(c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), c(10, 11, 12, 13, "
> [2] "14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)))"
> >
>
>
> Can someone suggest a way to extract the variable names when they are
> passed as a list via "..." ?
>
> Thanks,
> Whit
>
>
>
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