Question

How to provide names for list elments in r?

Answer 1

There are 2 ways to add names to elements.

> l=list(Id = c(1:5),Name = letters[1:5])
> l
$Id
[1] 1 2 3 4 5

$Name
[1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e"

> l=list(c(1:5),letters[1:5])
> names(l) = c("Id","Name")
> l
$Id
[1] 1 2 3 4 5

$Name
[1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e"