'Use object names as list names in R

Of course I could name the objects in my list all manually like this:

    #create dfs
    df1<-data.frame(a=sample(1:50,10),b=sample(1:50,10),c=sample(1:50,10))
    df2<-data.frame(a=sample(1:50,9),b=sample(1:50,9),c=sample(1:50,9))
    df3<-data.frame(a=sample(1:50,8),b=sample(1:50,8),c=sample(1:50,8))

    #make them a list
    list.1<-list(df1=df1,df2=df2,df3=df3)

But it makes a lot of work if I have let's say 50 objects with long names. So is there any way to automate this and make the names inside the list the same as the outside objects?

rlistnaming


Solution 1:[1]

If you just want to name a list with names from the environment that share something, in this case 'df': 

names(list.1) <- grep("df",ls(),value=TRUE)

If you want to push your environment into a list: 

list.1 <- globalenv()
list.1 <- as.list(list.1)

To reverse the process see ?list2env

Solution 2:[2]

As noted in the possible duplicate questions' responses:

From the tidyverse, use tibble:lst: https://tibble.tidyverse.org/reference/lst.html

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Solution Source
Solution 1 Brandon Bertelsen
Solution 2 Scott Kaiser

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