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Keith John Hutchison
Keith John Hutchison

Reputation: 5287

How to add a named element to a R list using a variable counter?

I have number of results to pass back to a calling procedure I'd like to pass back a named list where each result is numbered.

# the following works
# result is a valid result
results = list( "1" = result)

When I do the following I end up with results$resultCounter instead of results$'1'

resultCounter = 1
results = list( resultCounter = result)

How do you pass in the contents of a variable to be the name of an element within a list?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 50

Answers (1)

akrun
akrun

Reputation: 887531

One option would be to use setNames

results <- setNames(result, resultCounter)

data

result <- list(1:5, 6:10)
resultCounter <- 1:2

Upvotes: 2

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