Return a list

But why do this? Just leave the (preferably named) variables as list
components and work with them there.

1. ?comment tells you how to add a comment attribute to the list for self
documentation (what were the components? how are they related? etc.)

2. ?with  shows you how to access the components of the list individually in
the "usual" way.

3. ?lapply and friends shows you how to "loop" over list components .

etc.

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter 
Genentech  

  

I have several output variables which I give back with the list command.

test <- function	{return(list(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,...))}

After the usage of the function I want to assign the variables to the
      

output variables.
  

result <- test()

a <- result$a
b <- result$b
c <- result$c
d <- result$d
...

is there a more elegant way to assign these variables, without writing
      

them all down?
  

arguably ugly and risky, but simple:

for (name in names(result)) assign(name, result[[name]])

(note, for this to work you actually need to name the components of the
returned list: return(list(a=a,b=b,...)))

vQ