R Programming: Assign new Names to elements of a given List

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Write a R program to assign new names "a", "b" and "c" to the elements of a given list.

Sample list: (g1 = 1:10, g2 = "R Programming", g3 = "HTML")

Sample Solution :

R Programming Code :

# Create a list with three elements: a sequence of numbers, a string, and another string
list1 = list(g1 = 1:10, g2 = "R Programming", g3 = "HTML")

# Print the original list
print("Original list:")
print(list1)

# Assign new names "one", "two", and "three" to the elements of the list
names(list1) = c("one", "two", "three")

# Print a message about assigning new names to the list elements
print("Assign new names 'one', 'two' and 'three' to the elements of the said list")

# Print the modified list with the new element names
print(list1)

Output:

[1] "Original list:"
$g1
 [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

$g2
[1] "R Programming"

$g3
[1] "HTML"

[1] "Assign new names 'one', 'two' and 'three' to the elements of the said list"
$one
 [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

$two
[1] "R Programming"

$three
[1] "HTML"                         

Explanation:

• list1 = list(g1 = 1:10, g2 = "R Programming", g3 = "HTML")
• Creates a list named list1 with three elements:
• g1: a numeric vector from 1 to 10
• g2: a string "R Programming"
• g3: a string "HTML"
• print("Original list:")
• Prints the message "Original list:" to indicate the original list will be displayed.
• print(list1)
• Prints the content of the list list1.
• names(list1) = c("one", "two", "three")
• Assigns new names "one", "two", and "three" to the elements of list1, replacing the default names (g1, g2, g3).
• print("Assign new names 'one', 'two' and 'three' to the elements of the said list")
• Prints a message explaining that new names have been assigned to the list elements.
• print(list1)
• Prints the modified list with the newly assigned names. The elements are now referred to as "one", "two", and "three".

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