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Dear Folk-- Suppose I have some objects A, B & C, and a function getDots <- function(...) {args <- list(...) etc.} If I do a call to getDots(A, B, C) then the variable args will be assigned to a list which contains the objects to which A, B & C refer, but which will not (except by happenstance) contain the names A, B, or C. I would like getDots to return a...

Hi, The following function works, but is there a neater way to write it? f = function(x,...) { # return a character vector of the arguments passed in after 'x' gsub(" ","",unlist(strsplit(deparse(substitute(list(...))),"[(,)]")))[-1] } > f(x,a,b,c*d) [1] "a" "b" "c*d" > Thanks. [[alternative HTML