I hope a very basic R/S programming question is appropriate for this
list...
I have a function which returns a list of several (named) numeric
values characterising an event history for a person. I want to invoke
the function many (1000) times and create a vector of these lists to
represent the histories of a population.
At first, I thought that a data frame would be the appropriate way to
store the whole population record. But upon some reading in "Modern
Applied Statistics with S-plus" (Venables and Ripley, 1994) it seems
that a data frame is more like a list of vectors (all of the same
length) than a vector of lists.
What is the most common R/S idiom for creating a vector of lists and
then adding new lists to it? To be more specific, if "CreatePerson"
is a function that returns a list characterising that person, how do
I implement the following pseudo-code in R
Person[ i ] <- CreatePerson( param1, param2 )
Where Person[ 1000 ] is a vector of lists of the type returned by the
"CreatePerson" function? When I'm done, I want to do things like
the
following pseudo-code
Person[ j ]$Age <- Person[ j ]$Age + 1
or similar (actually, that particular piece of logic isn't
necessarily one I'm likely to do).
Any guidance is appreciated as are suggestions for a text to
supplement Venables and Ripley in learning this language from
scratch.
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