[R] Getting names of objects passed with "..."

[Mike Meredith]

Thanks, Henrik, but 'foo' doesn't do what I want:

x <- "some stuff"
second <- "more stuff"

foo(first=x, second)
[1] "first" ""

Brian's right:
>...he wants the argument name if there is one otherwise the 
> deparsed argument value, but clarification would be helpful. 

The function using this compares estimates of animal densities, CIs, etc
using different models, with one object containing the results of one model.
It extracts key results and AIC from these objects and does a summary
matrix, with lowest AIC at the top, so the row names need to reflect the
model used.

If the object name is sufficiently explanatory -- eg. point.est.hazardRate
-- then the deparsed argument value is fine as row name. But we need the
option to be more specific if necessary, eg. with "halfNormal=x1,
hazardRate=x2". Just like 'rbind', in fact.

Thanks,  Mike
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