[R] Some kind of inverse of "names"

[Bert Gunter]

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-- Bert

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Julio Sergio Santana
<juliosergio at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder if there exists some kind of inverse of the "names" primitive in
> R. Let me explain what do I mean:
>
> If I create a list:
>   -> li <- list(a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4)
> then I can have:
>   -> names(li)
>   [1] "a" "b" "c" "d"
> which is, I guess, some kind of vector, since
>   -> typeof(names(li))
>   [1] "character"
> however, I haven't seen something that allows me to get the other side,
> i.e., the values.
> Something like:
>   ->VALUES(li)
>   [1] 1 2 3 4
>
> Do you have any comments on this?

Yes. Read "An Introduction to R" . You do not understand lists. Also see ?unlist

-- Bert

>
>
> Thanks,
>   - Sergio.
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