Extract names of dataframes passed with dots

Question

One can use deparse(substitute()) combination to extract the parameter name inside the function like this function

names_from_dots <- functio         


        

Answer 1

You can try the following:

names_from_dots <- function(...) sapply(substitute(list(...))[-1], deparse)

names_from_dots(swiss, iris)
# [1] "swiss" "iris"