R help - Jan 2000 - "Data Analysis and Graphics Using R"

I have just put up a new version of this 109 page pdf document, at:
  http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~johnm/r-notes/r-notes.pdf

The file containing the scripts (r-intro.dis) is in the same directory,
as are datasets [.R files; use source(<filename>)] that are not in the
current R libraries.

This replaces a version that had been posted earlier this week, in
which the final character (mostly an e) was missing from some words!
There was a fault in the Microsoft Word postscript driver that we
were using.

John Maindonald               email : john.maindonald at anu.edu.au        
Statistical Consulting Unit,  phone : (6249)3998        
c/o CMA, SMS,                 fax   : (6249)5549  
John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia
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Constructing lists with

list(name1=name1, name2=name2, ...)

is tedious when there are many objects and names are long. Is there an R
function that takes a character vector of object names as an argument and
returns a list with each objected tagged by its name? Going in the other
direction, is there a function that takes such a list as an argument and
instantiates each object in the list under its name?

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