On 2012-03-30 15:40, ivo welch wrote:
Dear R wizards: is there a clean way to assign to elements in a list?
what I would like to do, in pseudo R+perl notation is
f<- function(a,b) list(a+b,a-b)
(c,d)<- f(1,2)
and have c be assigned 1+2 and d be assigned 1-2. right now, I use the clunky
x<- f(1,2)
c<- x[[1]]
d<- x[[2]]
rm(x)
which seems awful. is there a nicer syntax?
regards, /iaw
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Ivo Welch (ivo.we...@brown.edu, ivo.we...@gmail.com)
I must be missing something. Why not just assign to a
vector instead of a list?
f<- function(a,b) c(a+b,a-b)
If it's imperative that f return a list, then you
could use
(c, d) <- unlist(f(a, b))
to get vector (c, d).
Peter Ehlers
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