List is a R-Object which can contain elements of different types such as numbers, vectors, strings or another list inside it.

List is a generic vector which contains mixed data type elements.

How to create a list

list() function is used to create a list.

list()

Example

x <- c(1,2,3,4,5)
y <- c("hello", "happy", "world")
z <- c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE)

list1 <- list(x,y,z)

You can also assign a name to the list elements with the help of names() function.

emp_list <- list( c("Foo","Bar", "Alex", "Mark"), c(1,2,3,4))

names(emp_list) <- c("Names","Id")

print(emp_list)

Check Result here

How to access elements of a list

You can access elements of a list using two methods

1. Indexing
2. List names

emp_list <- list( c("Foo","Bar", "Alex", "Mark"), c(1,2,3,4))
names(emp_list) <- c("Names","Id")

print(emp_list[1]) # accessing list elements by indexing

print(emp_list["Id"]) # accessing list elements by it's name

Check Result here