> f <- function(foo,bar) structure(list(bar),names =foo) > f("hello","world") $hello [1] "world"
Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 6:12 AM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.