[R] define a list with names as variables

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Giovanni Gherdovich <g.gherdovich at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Fri, 4 Aug 2017 12:36:49 +0200 writes:

    > Hello Thomas, Ulrik,
    > thanks for your suggestions.

There's also the
	setNames(<obj>, names)
which is a trivial wrapper to achieve this.
I had provided it for R (in package 'stats') just to help people
to write more nicely readable code:

Your function f()  below then becomes a simple one-liner:

   f <- function(foo, bar)  setNames(list(bar), foo)

Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich and R Core


    > Giovanni

    > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Thomas Mailund
    > <thomas.mailund at gmail.com> wrote:
    >> 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"

    > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com> wrote:
    >> Hi Giovani,
    >> 
    >> I would create an unnamed list and set the names after.
    >> 
    >> Best,
    >> Ulrik

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