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Functions to construct, coerce and check for both kinds of R lists.
list(...) pairlist(...) as.list(x, ...) ## S3 method for class 'environment' as.list(x, all.names = FALSE, sorted = FALSE, ...) as.pairlist(x) is.list(x) is.pairlist(x) alist(...)
... |
objects, possibly named. |
x |
object to be coerced or tested. |
all.names |
a logical indicating whether to copy all values or (default) only those whose names do not begin with a dot. |
sorted |
a logical indicating whether the |
Almost all lists in R internally are Generic Vectors, whereas
traditional dotted pair lists (as in LISP) remain available but
rarely seen by users (except as formals
of functions).
The arguments to list
or pairlist
are of the form
value
or tag = value
. The functions return a list or
dotted pair list composed of its arguments with each value either
tagged or untagged, depending on how the argument was specified.
alist
handles its arguments as if they described function
arguments. So the values are not evaluated, and tagged arguments with
no value are allowed whereas list
simply ignores them.
alist
is most often used in conjunction with formals
.
as.list
attempts to coerce its argument to a list. For
functions, this returns the concatenation of the list of formal
arguments and the function body. For expressions, the list of
constituent elements is returned. as.list
is generic, and as
the default method calls as.vector(mode = "list")
for a
non-list, methods for as.vector
may be invoked. as.list
turns a factor into a list of one-element factors. Attributes may
be dropped unless the argument already is a list or expression. (This
is inconsistent with functions such as as.character
which always drop attributes, and is for efficiency since lists can be
expensive to copy.)
is.list
returns TRUE
if and only if its argument
is a list
or a pairlist
of length
> 0.
is.pairlist
returns TRUE
if and only if the argument
is a pairlist or NULL
(see below).
The "environment"
method for as.list
copies the
name-value pairs (for names not beginning with a dot) from an
environment to a named list. The user can request that all named
objects are copied. Unless sorted = TRUE
, the list is in no
particular order (the order
depends on the order of creation of objects and whether the
environment is hashed). No enclosing environments are searched.
(Objects copied are duplicated so this can be an expensive operation.)
Note that there is an inverse operation, the
as.environment()
method for list objects.
An empty pairlist, pairlist()
is the same as
NULL
. This is different from list()
: some but
not all operations will promote an empty pairlist to an empty list.
as.pairlist
is implemented as as.vector(x,
"pairlist")
, and hence will dispatch methods for the generic function
as.vector
. Lists are copied element-by-element into a pairlist
and the names of the list used as tags for the pairlist: the return
value for other types of argument is undocumented.
list
, is.list
and is.pairlist
are
primitive functions.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
vector("list", length)
for creation of a list with empty
components; c
, for concatenation; formals
.
unlist
is an approximate inverse to as.list()
.
‘plotmath’ for the use of list
in plot annotation.
require(graphics) # create a plotting structure pts <- list(x = cars[,1], y = cars[,2]) plot(pts) is.pairlist(.Options) # a user-level pairlist ## "pre-allocate" an empty list of length 5 vector("list", 5) # Argument lists f <- function() x # Note the specification of a "..." argument: formals(f) <- al <- alist(x = , y = 2 3, ... = ) f al ## environment->list coercion e1 <- new.env() e1$a <- 10 e1$b <- 20 as.list(e1)
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