Hi:

How about

> have <- list(a=7,b=3,c=1)
> lapply(have, rep, 2)
$a
[1] 7 7

$b
[1] 3 3

$c
[1] 1 1


HTH,
Dennis

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Derek Ogle <DOgle@northland.edu> wrote:

> I have a list that looks like this ...
>
> > have <- list(a=7,b=3,c=1)
> > have
> $a
> [1] 7
>
> $b
> [1] 3
>
> $c
> [1] 1
>
> and I want to have a simple way to change it to the following without
> re-typing the values ...
>
> > desire <- list(a=c(7,7),b=c(3,3),c=c(1,1))
> > desire
> $a
> [1] 7 7
>
> $b
> [1] 3 3
>
> $c
> [1] 1 1
>
> In other words, I need to create the list in desire from the list in have.
>
> In my "real" work the number of items in the list may be more than three
> and the number of times to repeat the numbers may be greater than two.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
>
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