append_attr: Append attributes

In SpaDES.core: Core Utilities for Developing and Running Spatially Explicit Discrete Event Models

Append attributes

Description

Ordinary base lists and vectors do not retain their attributes when subsetted or appended. This function appends items to a list while preserving the attributes of items in the list (but not of the list itself).

Usage

append_attr(x, y)

## S4 method for signature 'list,list'
append_attr(x, y)

Arguments

x, y	A list of items with optional attributes.

Details

Similar to updateList but does not require named lists.

Value

An updated list with attributes.

Author(s)

Alex Chubaty and Eliot McIntire

Examples

tmp1 <- list("apple", "banana")
tmp1 <- lapply(tmp1, `attributes<-`, list(type = "fruit"))
tmp2 <- list("carrot")
tmp2 <- lapply(tmp2, `attributes<-`, list(type = "vegetable"))
append_attr(tmp1, tmp2)
rm(tmp1, tmp2)

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