Why not just use the list constructor: theList <- setNames(vector("list",3),letters[1:3])
## The list components are empty = NULL, not NA) This also doesn't seem to be an R-devel topic. -- Bert On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Josh O'Brien <joshmobr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Say I have argnames <- c("a", "b", "c"). > >From that I want to construct the equivalent of alist(a=, b=, c=). > > Here's a one liner that'll do that for you: > > argnames <- letters[1:3] > setNames(rep(list(bquote()), length(argnames)), argnames) > > - Josh > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-build-a-list-with-missing-values-What-is-missing-anyway-tp4644957p4644965.html > Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel