The usual method is either lis <- vector("list")
or, nearly equivalently, lis <- list() If you know in advance how many components the list will have, there can be a slight advantage in using lis25 <- vector("list", 25) if e.g. you know the list will be of length 25. Bill Venables. -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of song song Sent: Tuesday, 22 June 2010 9:18 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] how to initial a list to store data result? May I ask how to initialize a list? usually I will use " result=list(0) " to do this. is this right? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.