How to name Dataframes inside a List - r

Question

I have created a basic list, and inside this list called lista (not big fantasy I know) there are 10 small dataframes.
Each one of this dataframes is called "numberone","numbertwo",...,"numberten".
When I accede this list I can't see their names.
but the output I can see in the workspace (Rstudio) is this
This below is the code and my tries:
#creating multiple dataframes and a list and then give a title to this dataframes inside the list.
lista = list()
names = c("numberone","numbertwo","numberthree","numberfour","numberfive","numbersix","numberseven","numbereight","numbernine","numberten")
for (i in 1:10) {
x = rnorm(10)
df = data.frame(x)
assign(names[i],df)
lista[[i]] = df
}
#trying to change manually the names of the dataframes inside the "lista" list
names(lista[1]) = "number one"
print(names(lista[1])) #this gives no results
#trying using dput
output = dput(lista[1])
##trying put manually the name in front of the dput output to rename the first dataframe inside lista..
list('numberone'= structure(list(x = c(0.750704535096297, 1.16925878942967,
0.806475114411396, 1.00973486249489, -0.301553383694518, 0.546485320708262,
1.03645444095639, 0.247820396853631, -1.64294545886444, -0.216784798035195
)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -10L)))
#this seems to have renamed the first dataframe but, it's not working anyway
lista$numberone
print(names(lista[1])) #still no results
I've tried almost everything I could, but I can't give this single dataframes their names inside the list.
How can i name these dataframes?
Thank You

Answer 1

Try to do names(list)
Here an example using empty lists
list_test = vector("list",4)
names(list_test) = c("A","B","C","D")
list_test
$A
NULL
$B
NULL
$C
NULL
$D
NULL
With your example, I did:
names(lista) <- names
and I get:
names(lista)
[1] "numberone" "numbertwo" "numberthree" "numberfour" "numberfive" "numbersix" "numberseven"
[8] "numbereight" "numbernine" "numberten"

Answer 2

I think you might be looking to use double brackets (e.g.[[1]]) to reference elements in your list. Using your example code, this will work:
names(lista[[1]]) = "number one"
print(names(lista[[1]])) #first element is now called "number one"
You can also use a setNames() function within a Map() function to rename each column for your list of dataframes.
lista <-Map(setNames, lista , names)
lista # each column is now assigned a name from your vector called names
To keep your code clean as possible, it is best to avoid naming objects with the same names as functions. (Your example code uses a vector called "names" but also uses names() function.)