how to create a list in R from two vectors (one would be the keys, the other the values)?

Question

I have two vectors and I want to create a list in R where one vector are the keys and the other the values. I thought that I was going to find easily the answer in my books

Answer 1

Hong's output is wrong.

Should use vals[["key42"]]

> vals[["key42"]]
[1] 42

vals <- 1:1000000
keys <- paste0("key", 1:1000000)
names(vals) <- keys

vals["key42"]
key42
   42