Combining your, Rolf, and Michael's suggestions makes it possible to eliminate the lappy():
mget(ls()[grep("^x\\.[[:digit:]]+$", ls())], .GlobalEnv) ---------------------------------------------- David L Carlson Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Rui Barradas > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 9:49 AM > To: Erin Hodgess > Cc: R help > Subject: Re: [R] a simple list question > > Hello, > > My solution is too complicated, the assign() is not needed. > > > lapply( ls()[grep("^x\\.[[:digit:]]+$", ls())], get) > > > Hope this helps, > > Rui Barradas > Em 07-11-2012 11:44, Rui Barradas escreveu: > > Hello, > > > > Try the following. > > > > x.1 <- 1:3 > > y.1 <- 1:4 > > x.2 <- 5:10 > > > > > > vecs <- ls()[grep("^x\\.[[:digit:]]+$", ls())] > > lapply(vecs, function(.x) assign(.x, get(.x))) > > > > > > Then you can use vecs to attribute names() to the result. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Rui Barradas > > > > Em 07-11-2012 05:35, Erin Hodgess escreveu: > >> Dear R People > >> > >> I have a simple list question, please: > >> > >> I have vectors x.1, x.2,...x.n (each of different lengths) and I > would > >> like to combine them into a list. > >> > >> However, I'm sure that there is a better way to do this than to type > >> in x <- list(x.1,x.2,x.3,...) > >> > >> > >> Is there a better way to do this, please? I was thinking about > >> possibly using grep? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Sincerely, > >> Erin > >> > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.