Convert names of vector objects into the tags of the list of vectors with R

Question

I have some vectors, like this:

months <- c("january", "february", "march", "october", "december") 
weekdays <- c("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday")
seasons <- c("Summer", "Winter", "Fall", "autumn")

And I want to create a list like this

timeWords_list <- list(months,  weekdays, seasons)

Is there any way to tag the objects of the list directly with the names of the vector objects?

The result I want can be achieved like this:

names(timeWords_list) <- c("months",  "weekdays", "seasons")

But, Is there any way to do that directly? Without re-writing these names (in a string vector)?

Answer 1

Try any of these one-liners. The first one does require that each name be written twice but no character vector of names need be provided and the intent of the code is very clear. The second one only requires that the names be written once. The third one does not require that the names be written out at all but only works if there are no other variables whose names end in s -- if there were such names those variables would be included in the list as well.

No packages are used.

L1 <- list(months = months, weekdays = weekdays, seasons = seasons)

L2 <- mget(c("months", "weekdays", "seasons"))

L3 <- mget(ls(pattern = "s$"))