Following problem:

Say you have a bunch of parameters and want to produce results for all 
combinations of those:

height<-c("high","low")
width<-c("slim","wide")

then what i used to do was something like this:

l<-list()
for(h in height){
        l[[h]]<-list()
        for(w in width){
                l[[h]][[w]] <- doSomething()
        }
}

Now those parameters aren't always the same. Their number can change and the 
number of entries can change, and i'd like to have one code that can handle all 
configurations.

Now i thought i could use expand.grid() to get all configurations ,and than 
iterate over the rows, but the problem then is that i cannot set the values in 
the list like above.

grid<-expand.grid(height,width)
l[[as.character(grid[1,])]] <-1
Error in `[[<-`(`*tmp*`, as.character(grid[1, ]), value = 1) : 
  no such index at level 1

 This will only work if the "path" for that is already existent, and i'm not 
sure how to build that in this scenario. 

I then went on and built an array instead lists of lists, but that doesn't help 
either because i can't access the array with what i have in the grids row - or 
at least i don't know how.

Any ideas?

I'd prefer to keep the named lists since all other code is built towards this.
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