[R] assign object to list

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Christian Bieli wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I want to generate a list like this:
>
> a <- data.frame(1:10)
> attr(a,'myattribute') <- 'something'
> b <- data.frame(11:20)
> attr(b,'myattribute') <- 'anything'
> mylist <- list(a,b)
>
> Is there a way to place the dataframes into the list giving them the
> attribute at the same time?

Yes, the above worked.

> lapply(mylist, attributes)
> lapply(mylist, function(x) attr(x, "myattribute"))

show you they are there.

What may have confused you is that the print method for data frames does 
not show arbitrary attributes.

> I don't want to create all the dataframes in my workspace first. I tried
> it with parentheses {}, but it obviously did not work.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Christian

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