Dear all, Sorry for my slow answer, and thanks for all the suggestion.
On 23 Jul 2012, at 22:25, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote: > You can use the odd idiom substitute(...()) to get the unevaluated ... > arguments: >> f1 <- function(x, ...) substitute(...()) >> f1(1, warning("Hmm"), stop("Oops"), cat("some output\n")) This is what I finally settled on using. Many thanks, Jochen -- http://seehuhn.de/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.