How to rename element's list indexed by a loop in R

Question

I\'m new on R language and I still have a lot to learn. I\'ve a list W of J elements and I would like to rename its elements W[[i]] with Wi

Answer 1

Alternatively you can use sprintf():

 w<-list(a="give",b="me an",c="example")
 names(w)<-sprintf("W%i",1:length(w))

As you can see, you do not need a loop for this.

It should do the work. In this example, the names are W1,W2 and W3

print(w)
$W1
[1] "give"

$W2
[1] "me an"

$W3
[1] "example"