Extract dataframes from list using Lapply

[Rafael.F]

Hello,
I have the following list

This list has 6 dataframes. Then I need to extract them to my global enviroment using their names, like this:

I have been using this code:

Is there any elegant lapply solution?

[Yarnabrina]

Did you try list2env? Is it not enough for you?

https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/list2env.html

Here's a mapply solution, which can be wrapped inside invisible:

mapply(function(name, value) assign(name, value, envir=globalenv()), names(datalist), datalist)

(not tested)

[nirgrahamuk]

If the motivation for doing this is to improve the ease of interactive analysis work, i.e. to save ones typing while one plays with the data, there is a possible alternative to consider.
attach() and detach() can be used to add ( and remove) items to the search path, effectively it means you can treat an attached object as if its names components were present in your immediate environment, whens they arent. It makes it as though you typed out the full name effectively.
i.e.

wantlist <- list(a1 = mtcars,
                 a2=iris)

head(a1)
# as expected : Error in head(a1) : object 'a1' not found
head(wantlist$a1)
# gets what I want but annoying to type each time

attach(wantlist)
# more convenient
head(a1)
head(a2)

# restore old behaviour
detach("wantlist")

head(a1)
# as expected : Error in head(a1) : object 'a1' not found