Try this: # same args as lapply. FUN must return named components. lapplyWithRename <- function(...) { x <- lapply(...) names(x) <- sapply(x, names) lapply(x, function(x) { names(x) <- NULL; x }) }
# test function - if x is "A" then f returns c("Name A" = "A") f <- function(x) structure(x, .Names = paste("Name", x)) L <- list(a="A", b="B") lapplyWithRename(L, f) Output looks like this: > lapplyWithRename(L, f) $`Name A` [1] "A" $`Name B` [1] "B" On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Mark Heckmann <mark.heckm...@gmx.de> wrote: > Happy New Year, all! > > I want to do calculations on each element of a list l, but i want the > returned list element to be named differently after the calculation. > Is it possible to do the renaming somehow within the lapply call? > > l <- list(a=NA, b=NA) > lapply(l, function(x) {names(x) <- "new name"; return(x) }) > > This does not work, any ideas? > TIA > > ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– > Mark Heckmann > Dipl. Wirt.-Ing. cand. Psych. > Vorstraße 93 B01 > 28359 Bremen > Blog: www.markheckmann.de > R-Blog: http://ryouready.wordpress.com > > ______________________________________________ > 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.