[R] Creating named lists

[Erich Neuwirth]

If thats what you want, why don't you do
list(a=1, b=2)


On 3/12/2010 10:45 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:
> No, I mean this:
> a <- 1
> b <- 2
> list(a=a, b=b)
> 
> I just find it anoying, that I have to type the names of the variables
> twice.
> I would like something like this instead:
> list(a, b, use.var.names=TRUE)
> 
> --
> Rune
> 
> Linlin Yan wrote:
>> Did you mean this:
>>
>>   
>>> n <- c('a', 'b')
>>> structure(list(1, 2), names = n)
>>>     
>> $a
>> [1] 1
>>
>> $b
>> [1] 2
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof
>> <rphilosof at health.sdu.dk> wrote:
>>   
>>> I often find myself making lists similar to this
>>> list(var1=var1, var2=var2)
>>>
>>> It doesn't seem list has an option, to make it use the name of the
>>> variable as name in the list.
>>> Is there another function that does this?
>>>
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