How to create a list of many dataframes that have the same pattern of names?

let’s say I have these many dataset (let’s imagine 1000 datasets) :

df1 = data.frame(x = 1:10)

df2 = data.frame(x = 2:11)

df3 = data.frame(x = 3:5)

df4 = data.frame(x = 11:20)

I want to create a list that is called L as follows

L = list(df1,df2,df3,df4)

but if I have thousands of dataframes, it would be difficult to write each dataframe namein the list. Would take forever. Would like a function that can make creating this list easier. Thanks.

>Solution :

By using BaseR,

n = 4
L = lapply(1:n, function(x) {get(paste0("df",x)) })

where n is the maximum number at the end of your dataframe names.