Generate object names from variables

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 16:57 +0200, Georg Otto wrote:

Hi,

I want to generate object names out of variables in a sort of variable
substitution.

first i generate some vectors and an empty list:

vector.a<-c("a","b")
vector.b<-c("c","d")
vector.c<-c("e","f")
vectors<-c("vector.a", "vector.b", "vector.c")
vectors

[1] "vector.a" "vector.b" "vector.c"

vectorlist<-list()

What I would then like to do is to generate elements of the list by
using variables, somehow like this (does not work):

for (i in vectors) {

+ list$i<-i
+ }

To end up with a list like this:

list

$vector.a
 [1] "a" "b"
$vector.b
 [1] "c" "d"
$vector.c
 [1] "e" "f"


Any hint will be appreciated.

Cheers,

Georg