You can wrap the list-creating function call (e.g. lapply) in a call to ?setNames, or you can use the ?map function from the purrr package. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On August 4, 2017 3:14:44 AM PDT, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.ster...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Giovani, > >I would create an unnamed list and set the names after. > >Best, >Ulrik > >On Fri, 4 Aug 2017 at 12:08 Giovanni Gherdovich ><g.gherdov...@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 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.