Note that an R dictionary is just a list with named elements. This means you can still access the items by index, e.g. sounds[1] will return cat . This also means that you don't need to name every element!

Does R have dictionary?

Lists are the only key-value mapping type provided in base R: there are no dictionaries or associative arrays.

Can you make dictionaries in R?

dict: Create a dictionary

Returns a dictionary in which numbers and string (including vectors of each) can be used as keys, and any R object can be used as value.