Because I was simplifying the use case to make an example.
The variables are often created during various computations in functions
and in order to return more than one value from a function I have to
create a list.
Wrapping everything in a list statement would make it harder to read and
make debugging a pain.
Erich Neuwirth wrote:
> If thats what you want, why don't you do
> list(a=1, b=2)
>
>
> On 3/12/2010 10:45 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:
>
>> No, I mean this:
>> a <- 1
>> b <- 2
>> list(a=a, b=b)
>>
>> I just find it anoying, that I have to type the names of the variables
>> twice.
>> I would like something like this instead:
>> list(a, b, use.var.names=TRUE)
>>
>> --
>> Rune
>>
>> Linlin Yan wrote:
>>
>>> Did you mean this:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> n <- c('a', 'b')
>>>> structure(list(1, 2), names = n)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> $a
>>> [1] 1
>>>
>>> $b
>>> [1] 2
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof
>>> <rphilo...@health.sdu.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I often find myself making lists similar to this
>>>> list(var1=var1, var2=var2)
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't seem list has an option, to make it use the name of the
>>>> variable as name in the list.
>>>> Is there another function that does this?
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>
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>>>>
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