lapply and use.names howto

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Johannes Graumann wrote:

How do I make R use the use.names option in a context like this:

What 'use.names option'?  sapply has a USE.NAMES argument, but lapply does
not.

lapply(data, function(x)(read.table(x,quote="",header=TRUE,sep="\t")),
use.names=TRUE)

'data' is the name of an R function.  If say 'dd' were a character vector
of file names you could do

res <- lapply(dd, function(x)(read.table(x,quote="",header=TRUE,sep="\t"))
names(res) <- dd

or even

sapply(dd, function(x)(read.table(x,quote="",header=TRUE,sep="\t"),
        simplify = FALSE)

which does the same thing.