Converting two columns of a data frame to a named vector

Question

I need to convert a multi-row two-column data.frame to a named character vector. My data.frame would be something like:

dd = data.         


        

Answer 1

Here is a very general, easy way. Presently, it works with the development version of dplyr available via github

# devtools::install_github("tidyverse/dplyr") # dplyr_0.8.99.9003

# .rs.restartR() # Restart R session if dplyr was loaded before
library(dplyr)

iris %>%
  pull(Sepal.Length, Species)

(the first argument is the values, the second argument is the names)