Re: [R] naming components of a list

If there is a lot of names perhaps sprintf(format, 1:length(L), sep="") where format is the appropriate format for sprintf so that it is easier to read Duncan Duncan Mackay Department of Agronomy and Soil Science University of New England ARMIDALE NSW 2351 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home [EMAIL

Re: [R] naming components of a list

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

Re: [R] naming components of a list

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"

[R] naming components of a list

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 compone