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

[Mike Meredith]

Sorry, I responded a bit too hastily last night, without testing the two
functions properly.

> Brian's is shorter but I think the one in my post is a bit more robust:

Indeed! 'f1' only works if at least one of the arguments is named. Otherwise
'nm' is NULL and 'nchar(nm[i])' fails. 'f2' seems to have all combinations
covered.  Thanks again!!

> f1 <- function(...) {
+    m <- as.list(match.call(expand.dots=TRUE))[-1]
+    nm <- names(m)
+    for(i in seq_along(m)) if(!nchar(nm[i])) nm[i] <- deparse(m[[i]])
+    nm
+ }
>
> f2 <- function(...) {
+ x <- list(...)
+ if (is.null(names(x))) names(x) <- ""
+ names(x)[names(x) == ""] <- NA
+ mc <- match.call()[-1]
+ ifelse(is.na(names(x)), as.character(mc), names(x))
+ }
>
> f1(sin, cos)
Error in if (!nchar(nm[i])) nm[i] <- deparse(m[[i]]) :
        argument is of length zero
> f2(sin, cos)
[1] "sin" "cos"

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