[R] Initializing lists with n objects

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Sam Field wrote:

> Hopefully quick question.   I would like to populate a list with n
> objects using a for loop, so within the loop (i to n)  I need to refer
> to a list as example.list[[i]] .  This requires that I create a
> example.list[[i]] with n objects before the for loop.  How do I do
> this?   With matrices it is easy (matrix()).

And with lists equally easy via vector("list", n), which is mentioned on 
the help page for list.

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