[R] Constructing lists (yet, again)

[roger koenker]

This is an attempt to rescue an old R-help question that apparently  
received
no response from the oblivion of collective silence, and besides I'm  
also
curious about the answer

> From: Griffith Feeney (gfeeney at hawaii.edu)
> Date: Fri 28 Jan 2000 - 07:48:45 EST   wrote (to R-help)
> Constructing lists with
>
> list(name1=name1, name2=name2, ...)
>
> is tedious when there are many objects and names are long. Is there  
> an R
> function that takes a character vector of object names as an  
> argument and
> returns a list with each objected tagged by its name?
>
The idiom

	lapply(ls(pat = "^name"), function(x) eval(as.name(x)))

makes the list, but (ironically)  doesn't assign the names to the  
components.



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