Convert a vector of colon-separated text lines into a list of named elements

Source: R/frames.R

Convert a vector of colon-separated text lines into a list of named elements

listify(colon_sep_xs)

Arguments

colon_sep_xs

a character vector with lines of the form "key: value"

Value

a named list of the values in the colon-separated lines. "key: value" yields list(key = "value")

Details

Some minor cleaning of the input is performed:

  • Lines without a colon-space separator ": " are filtered out.

  • Once the strings are split at the separator, white-space on the left and right sides of each half-string is omitted.