[R] colname of ... arguments

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Thu Mar 11 00:30:59 CET 2010


I think you need to provide a richer example:

niceplot<-function(...) {
   parms=list(...)

  for (x in parms) {
    cat(x)
  }
}
 > e="e"

 > niceplot(e)
e

On Mar 10, 2010, at 5:21 PM, ManInMoon wrote:

>
> I have writtn a function where I pass a variable number of arguments.
>
> I They are vectors and I can manipulate them, but I need to get hold  
> of the
> name for a legend.
>
> niceplot<-function(...) {
>   parms=list(...)
>
>  for (x in parms) {
>    DoSomethingWith(x)
>  }
>
> }
>
> BUT how how can I get something like namestring(...) of  
> nameofvector(x)?
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