[R] how to make list() return a list of *named* elements

[Hans Ekbrand]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:10:16AM -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> A data frame is a list in which every component (i.e. every column)
> must have the same length (i.e. the same number of rows).
> data.frame() does preserve names:
> 
> > data.frame(b, my.c)
>      b my.c
> 1 22.4    8
> 2 12.2    9
> 3 10.9   15
> 4  8.5    1
> 5  9.2   14

Thanks for your suggestion. However, the reason I used list() was that
the different vectors to return usually have different lengths.

Admittedly, I should have used another example that explicated this.

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