[R] Return a list

Henrique Dallazuanna wwwhsd at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 17:42:42 CEST 2008


Try this:

sapply(names(result), function(nm)assign(nm, result[[nm]], envir = globalenv()))


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Stefan Fritsch
<fritsch at bips.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> Dear R Users,
>
> another problem for me is the output of a function.
>
> I have several output variables which I give back with the list command.
>
> test <- function        {return(list(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,...))}
>
> After the usage of the function I want to assign the variables to the output variables.
>
> result <- test()
>
> a <- result$a
> b <- result$b
> c <- result$c
> d <- result$d
> ...
>
> is there a more elegant way to assign these variables, without writing them all down?
>
> thank you very much for your help!
>
> Stefan Fritsch
>
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