Convert dataframe columns to named number vector [duplicate]

Question

I have a dataframe blah:

blah <- data.frame(x=c("Red", "Blood Red", "Crimson", "Maroon"), y=c(20, 1, 14, 13))

I want to convert blah into a named number/member vector:

blah <- c(`Red` = 20, `Blood Red` = 1, `Crimson` = 14, `Maroon` = 13)

Where x is the name and y is the value.

How can I make this happen?

Answer 1

Just use setNames

setNames(blah$y, blah$x)
# Red Blood Red   Crimson    Maroon 
#  20         1        14        13