[R] Looking for a more elegant solution than a loop

[Erin Hodgess]

Beautiful....

Thanks so much!
Erin


On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Fox, John <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> Dear Erin,
>
> How about
>
> > x <- 6:9
> > as.list(x)
> [[1]]
> [1] 6
>
> [[2]]
> [1] 7
>
> [[3]]
> [1] 8
>
> [[4]]
> [1] 9
>
> Best,
>  John
>
> -----------------------------
> John Fox, Professor
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario
> Canada L8S 4M4
> Web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Erin
> > Hodgess
> > Sent: October 26, 2015 9:32 PM
> > To: R help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> > Subject: [R] Looking for a more elegant solution than a loop
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > The following (which is a toy example) works fine, but I wonder if there
> is a
> > better or more elegant way than to do the loop:
> >
> >  xz <- vector("list",length=4)
> >  x <- 6:9
> >  for(i in 1:4)xz[[i]] <- x[i]
> >  xz
> > [[1]]
> > [1] 6
> >
> > [[2]]
> > [1] 7
> >
> > [[3]]
> > [1] 8
> >
> > [[4]]
> > [1] 9
> >
> > This does exactly what I want, but the "for" loop seems out of place.
> > Maybe not.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sincerely
> > Erin
> >
> >
> > --
> > Erin Hodgess
> > Associate Professor
> > Department of Mathematical and Statistics University of Houston -
> > Downtown
> > mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
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-- 
Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematical and Statistics
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

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