Dear Erin, How about
> x <- 6:9 > as.list(x) [[1]] [1] 6 [[2]] [1] 7 [[3]] [1] 8 [[4]] [1] 9 Best, John ----------------------------- John Fox, Professor McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 Web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Erin > Hodgess > Sent: October 26, 2015 9:32 PM > To: R help <r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch> > Subject: [R] Looking for a more elegant solution than a loop > > Hello! > > The following (which is a toy example) works fine, but I wonder if there is a > better or more elegant way than to do the loop: > > xz <- vector("list",length=4) > x <- 6:9 > for(i in 1:4)xz[[i]] <- x[i] > xz > [[1]] > [1] 6 > > [[2]] > [1] 7 > > [[3]] > [1] 8 > > [[4]] > [1] 9 > > This does exactly what I want, but the "for" loop seems out of place. > Maybe not. > > Thanks, > Sincerely > Erin > > > -- > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Mathematical and Statistics University of Houston - > Downtown > mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.