And if you have "thousands of names" like this:
names(L) <- paste ("names", 1:length(L), sep="")
Nael
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Erin Hodgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> try this:
>
> > names(L) <- c("name1","name2","name3")
> > L
> $name1
> [1] "Fred"
>
> $name2
> [1] "Mary"
>
> $name3
> [1] "SAM"
>
> >
> >
> HTH,
> Sincerely,
> Erin
>
>
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:42 PM, joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi
> > I have a character vector with thousands of names which looks like this:
> >> V=c("Fred", "Mary", "SAM")
> >> V
> > [1] "Fred" "Mary" "SAM"
> >> class(V)
> > [1] "character"
> >
> > I would like to change it to a list:
> >> L=as.list(V)
> >> L
> > [[1]]
> > [1] "Fred"
> > [[2]]
> > [1] "Mary"
> > [[3]]
> > [1] "SAM"
> >
> > but I need to name the components as name1, name2, name3,
> > so it should look like this:
> > $name1
> > [1] "Fred"
> > $name2
> > [1] "Mary"
> > $name3
> > [1] "SAM"
> >
> > Any help will be much appreciated
> > Joseph
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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>
>
>
> --
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
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