[R] make a list with names with s/lapply

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Tue Feb 19 22:39:59 CET 2013


Hello,

I'm not sure I understabd, but if the names are in 'namen' then the 
following might do what you want.

names(open.list) <- namen


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 19-02-2013 18:09, Hermann Norpois escreveu:
> Hello,
>
> I open some files in a directory and get a list.
>
>
> open.list <- sapply (namen, function (x) {file <- list.files (ddir,
> pattern=x, full.names=TRUE) # namen is vector and each element detects a
> special file to open
>                                 file <- read.table (file)
>                                          }
> )
>
>
>
> This list has no names. I would like to get a list with key/value pairs and
> namen is the vector delivering the names. So how does sapply or lapply get
> the information to generate key/value pairs?
>
> Thanks
> Hermann
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