[R] define a list with names as variables

[Thomas Mailund]

Do you mean like this?


> f <- function(foo, bar) {
+   result <- list(bar)
+   names(result) <- foo
+   result
+ }

> (x <- f("hello", "world"))
$hello
[1] "world"

> names(x)
[1] "hello"


-- 
Thomas Mailund

On 4 August 2017 at 12.08.28, Giovanni Gherdovich (g.gherdovich at gmail.com)
wrote:

Hello,

I'm having troubles defining a list where names are variables (of type
character). Like this, which gives "foo" instead of "world" (the way I
meant it is that "world" is the value of the variable foo). Any hint?

> f <- function(foo, bar) { list(foo = bar) }
> x <- f("hello", "world")
> names(x)
[1] "foo"


Thanks,
Giovanni

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