R help - May 2008 - naming the components of a list

Hi
I have a character vector with thousands of names which looks like
this:
> V=c("Fred", "Mary", "SAM")
> V
[1] "Fred" "Mary" "SAM" 
> class(V)
[1] "character"

I would like to change it to a list:
> L=as.list(V)
> L
[[1]]
[1] "Fred"
[[2]]
[1] "Mary"
[[3]]
[1] "SAM"

but I need to name the components as name1, name2, name3, …
so it should look like this:
$name1
[1] "Fred"
$name2
[1] "Mary"
$name3
[1] "SAM"

Any help will be much appreciated
Joseph


      
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On 26/05/2008, at 7:54 AM, joseph wrote:
> Hi
> I have a character vector with thousands of names which looks like  
> this:
>> V=c("Fred", "Mary", "SAM")
>> V
> [1] "Fred" "Mary" "SAM"
>> class(V)
> [1] "character"
>
> I would like to change it to a list:
>> L=as.list(V)
>> L
> [[1]]
> [1] "Fred"
> [[2]]
> [1] "Mary"
> [[3]]
> [1] "SAM"
>
> but I need to name the components as name1, name2, name3,
>
> so it should look like this:
> $name1
> [1] "Fred"
> $name2
> [1] "Mary"
> $name3
> [1] "SAM"
names(L) <- paste("name",1:3,sep="")

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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