(also sent privately) Thanks to all who explained this to me; and here's a cheap hack that works pretty well: Use a 'dummy' variable: f(...,zznamer=substitute(...)) list<-as.character(zznamer) and that works pretty well.
r-sig-mac-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
1. Help request w/ function argument names (Carl Witthoft)
2. Re: Help request w/ function argument names (Don MacQueen) 3. Re: Help request w/ function argument names (Steven McKinney)